Altoon Sultan
Altoon Sultan first studied the egg tempera technique in a
graduate course on technique taught by Philip Pearlstein at
Brooklyn College in 1970.
Twenty-four years passed before she used the medium in earnest.
In the intervening years, she exhibited her oil and gouache
paintings widely throughout the United States.
She is represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York City,
where she's had ten solo shows since 1970.
Her work is in many public and private collections including
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery,
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Museum of
Women in the Arts. She is an elected member of the National
Academy of Design.
Her awards include two National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship Grants. She recently received an art
award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for egg
tempera paintings exhibited in the annual awards exhibition.
Altoon Sultan now lives in an old farmhouse on a hill in northern Vermont. There she paints in oil and egg tempera and gardens and teaches from time to time, currently as a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College.
"Red Wheelbarrow"
Altoon Sultan is the author of
The Luminous Brush
Painting With Egg Tempera
ISBN 0-8230-2888-7
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