Dorothy Antoun was born in New York and studied with Victor de Pauw at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. She also has a BFA degree in painting from Syracuse University and was a Max Beckmann scholar at the Brooklyn Mueseum where she studied with Reuben Tam. She has exhibited at the DeMena Gallery in New York City and also at the Lowe Art Center in Syracuse. Her paintings have been in shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and the San Bernadino County Museum. She is in the permanent collection of Syracuse University and has won first place honors at the Newport Rhode Island Art Festival. Ms. Antoun currently lives in Southern California.