Donald Sultan: Flowers

American painter Donald Sultan is celebrated for his powerful, architecturally influenced still lifes—striking compositions in which familiar subjects like flowers are transformed through industrial materials such as metal, graphite, wood, and tar.

Rising to prominence in the late 1970s as a leading figure in the “New Image” movement, Sultan reimagined the traditional still-life genre by breaking down his subjects into bold, essential forms and constructing paintings from the same materials ...