Sheila Isham

Sheila Burton Eaton Isham (December 19, 1927 – April 9, 2024) was an American printmaker, painter and book artist.

Biography
Sheila Burton Eaton was born in New York City on December 19, 1927. She was raised in Cedarhurst and later attended the college preparatory school, Garrison Forest School.

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. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Isham died from pneumonia in Manhattan, on April 9, 2024, at the age of 96.