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DONALD SULTAN
ARTIST INFOThe American painter, sculptor and graphic artist Donald Sultan (* 1951 Ashville, North Carolina) is known for large format still lifes and his use of unusual materials. These are industrial materials such as putty, tar, enamel or even vinyl tiles. His works can be found in international museum collections.
The printmaker Donald Sultan has been working with lithography, etching, screen printing, woodcuts and simple linocuts for decades. Among his works are complex, large-scale aquatint etchings that mimic soft-edged charcoal drawings. The art world sometimes speaks of printed marvels that remotely hint at the graphic element.
The draftsman Donald Sultan remains connected to nature and shows in partially silhouette-like charcoal drawings and compositions in colored chalk – or flock on paper – monochrome forms reminiscent of fruits and flowers. Floating, his motifs move up to the edges of the sheet, which sometimes makes them appear surreal.
Donald Sultan said of his still lifes with flowers:
“I’ve been using floral imagery for 40 years…because in the 1970s I began to see the urban environment as a source of new growth. Back then, nobody of my generation painted flowers; today … (are) of course they all are.”
Solo exhibitions by Donald Sultan
Houston Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Brooklyn Museum
New York Museum of Modern Art
Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
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Donald Sultan in international collections and museums
Honolulu Museum of Art
New York Museum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
das Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Portland Museum of Art , das Dallas Museum of Art
das Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Reina Sofia in Madrid
Tate Modern in London
National Museum of Modern Art in Tokio
Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
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Donald Sultan received numerous awards and honors for his works
Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York, NY (1979)
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (1980)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of North Carolina (1992)
Ehrendoktorwürde, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (2000)
Ehrendoktorwürde, New York Academy of Art, NY (2002)
Ehrendoktorwürde, University of North Carolina, Asheville (2007)
North Carolina Award für die Künste (2010)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX (2011)
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