Studio and Garden

by Altoon Sultan

March 10, 2016

A New Textile: "Blue Squares"

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Blue Squares , hand dyed wool on linen, 10 x 23 1/2 in.  After the more complex compositions of my last two textiles, which you can...
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March 7, 2016

Early American Portraiture: Paint Becomes "Thing"

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 John Brewster Jr., John Colley and Martha Colley , ca. 1820; oil on canvas. There is a quality in early American painting, espe...
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February 29, 2016

Two New Clay Reliefs

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Circles , porcelain with acrylic paint, 8 1/2 x 9 3/8 x 3/4 in. There's still so much about clay that I have to learn, but I...
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February 25, 2016

A New Painting: "Angled Bar"

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Angled Bar , egg tempera on calfskin parchment, 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. I feel as though I put umpteen layers of paint on this piece, tryin...
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February 22, 2016

A Beautiful Grief: Petrus Christus' "Lamentation"

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Petrus Christus, The Lamentation , ca. 1450; oil on wood, 10 x 13 3/4 in. My photograph. My favorite European painting gallerie...
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February 17, 2016

A New Textile: "Four Triangles"

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Four Triangles , hand dyed wool on linen, 18 x 20 in. Three equilateral triangles, sewn together at their corners, create a fourth...
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February 13, 2016

A New Painting: "Tall Red"

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Tall Red , egg tempera on calfskin parchment, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Red is a difficult color because it is both dark and intense: go ...
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February 10, 2016

Some Contemporary Painting at the Met

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Lee Krasner, Rising Green , 1972; oil on canvas, 82 3/8 x 69 1/4 in.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reinstalled their con...
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February 7, 2016

Adventures with Clay: Trial by Fire

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Porcelain, 8 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 7/8 in. This does not happen with painting! when a painting is done, it's a success or a failure, b...
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February 3, 2016

Retreating Snow

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Last winter was a season of bitter cold and snow; this year winter couldn't be more different. I wrote happily about the late arri...
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Altoon Sultan
I'm a native New Yorker––from the Flatbush area of Brooklyn––and now paint, make textiles, and relief sculpture, and also garden on an old hill farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. My works are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery, London.
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