Early Life and Artistic Foundations Altoon Sultan, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948, emerged from a borough steeped in artistic energy. Her formative years were profoundly shaped by her education at Brooklyn College, where she immersed herself in the study of painting under the guidance of influential figures like Philip Pearlstein and Lois Dodd. These mentors instilled within her a rigorous approach to realism—not merely as replic…