Altoon Sultan

Altoon Sultan (1948) is an American player 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 expected two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She standard her BFA in 1969 after studying painting at Brooklyn College, and her MFA in 1971, also at Brooklyn College, where she studied like Philip Pearlstein and Lois Dodd. She along with attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Altoon Sultan maintains a popular blog, Studio and Garden, in which she posts flora and fauna photographs of her home in Groton, Vermont, her house and garden, her thoughts virtually her art-making, and reviews and photographs of exhibitions she frequently visits in New York City and elsewhere. Sultan is known for her dedication to materials and color, often valuing the two higher than a deeper meaning to her pieces. She is then known for rejecting the large scale that minimalist art often takes, instead favoring a smaller, more intimate scale.