Sheila Isham

{{Infobox artist

| name = Sheila Isham

| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|19}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|4|9|1927|12|19}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| alma_mater = Bryn Mawr College,
Academy of Arts, Berlin

| website = {{URL|https://www.sheilaisham.org/}}

| birth_name = Sheila Burton Eaton

| spouse = Heyward Isham

| children = 3, including Chris Isham

}}

Sheila Burton Eaton Isham (December 19, 1927 – April 9, 2024) was an American printmaker, painter and book artist.{{Cite web|title=Sheila Eaton Isham|url=http://bascom.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/mawrtyrs/isham.html|access-date=August 31, 2021|website=mAwRTyrS, Bryn Mawr College}}

Biography

Sheila Burton Eaton was born in New York City on December 19, 1927.{{Cite web|title=Ontdek schilder, lithograaf, etser Sheila Isham|url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/292876|access-date=August 31, 2021|website=rkd.nl|language=nl}}{{Cite web|date=April 3, 1950|title=Miss Sheila Eaton Engaged to Marry; Senior at Bryn Mawr Fiancee of Heyward Isham, Son of Noted Book Collector|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/04/03/94253285.html?pageNumber=31|url-access=limited|access-date=August 31, 2021|website=Times Machine|publisher=The New York Times|page=31|language=en}} She was raised in Cedarhurst and later attended the college preparatory school, Garrison Forest School.{{Cite news|last=Delatiner|first=Barbara|date=May 29, 1988|title=A Painter Finds Far-Flung Influences|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/nyregion/a-painter-finds-farflung-influences.html|access-date=August 31, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}

Isham attended Bryn Mawr College, where she met her future husband Heyward Isham who was attending college at Yale University. After graduating from Byrn Mawr, the couple married. Isham studied at Akademie der Künste in West Berlin (now Academy of Arts, Berlin), between 1950 and 1954.

In 2004, the State Russian Museum presented a 50-year retrospective of her work.{{cite web |title=Sheila Isham - St Michael's Castle - Русский музей |url=http://en.rusmuseum.ru/mikhailovsky-castle/exhibitions/sheila-isham/ |website=en.rusmuseum.ru}} Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{cite web|title=Sheila Isham|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/sheila-isham-2406|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}} Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York,{{cite web|title=Sheila Isham|url=https://pc.guildhall.org/artpress_artist/sheila-isham/|website=Guild Hall}} the Museum of Modern Art, New York,{{cite web|title=Sheila Isham|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/2832|website=The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)|language=en}}the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and many others.

Isham died from pneumonia in Manhattan, on April 9, 2024, at the age of 96.{{cite news|title=Sheila Isham, artist whose work spanned continents, dies at 96 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/sheila-isham-artist-dead/|date=April 12, 2024|last=Smith|first=Harrison|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=April 12, 2024}}

References

Category:1927 births

Category:2024 deaths

Category:20th-century American women artists

Category:20th-century American printmakers

Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni

Category:Artists from New York City

Category:People from Cedarhurst, New York

Category:American women book artists

Category:American book artists

Category:American women printmakers

Category:Garrison Forest School people