Donald Sultan is a leading contemporary artist who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement. He is known for his monumental paintings that characteristically use industrial materials such as tar, putty, and enamel to depict basic geometric and organic elements with a formal minimalism that is both weighty and textured. Sultan is known for his still lifes as well as his “disaster” paintings that focus on themes of industry, war, and man-made disasters. Throughout his career, he has revisited and reinvented still life with images of lemons, poppies, playing cards, fruits and flowers, and other objects. He is interested in contrasts and explores dichotomies such as beauty and roughness, nature and artificiality, realism and abstraction.