Discipline: Visual Art

Altoon Sultan

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972, 1974
More: www.altoonsultan.com
Altoon Sultan is an American artist and author who specializes in rural landscapes painted in egg tempera. Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She received her B.F.A. in 1969 after studying painting at Brooklyn College, and her M.F.A. in 1971, also at Brooklyn College, where she studied with Philip Pearlstein and Lois Dodd. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Sultan maintains a popular blog, Studio and Garden, in which she posts nature photographs of her home in Groton, VT, her land and garden, her thoughts about her art-making, and reviews and photographs of exhibitions she frequently visits in New York City and elsewhere. Sultan's art was shown at McKenzie Fine Art in New York in 2017. Her bas-relief sculptures in painted porcelain, begun in 2015, were exhibited for the first time in the show at McKenzie. Her 2007 show Monuments of Architecture at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery featured her egg-tempera paintings showing the influence of her photography.

Studios

Cheney

Altoon Sultan worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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