Her vibrant works drew from her travels around the world and were exhibited at preeminent museums in the United States and galleries abroad.
Sheila Isham, an artist who explored color and culture in vibrant works that drew from her travels around the world and were exhibited at preeminent museums in the United States and galleries abroad, died April 9 at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 96.Ms.
Ms. Isham also spent periods in Washington, where she became known, in Richard’s description, as “one of the most subtle and consistent modernist artists in our area,” and traveled extensively in India.At each stop, she immersed herself in the place’s artistic movements and cultural traditions — from German expressionism to Confucianism to Haitian ritual — which she combined in her art to powerful effect.
“I’ve integrated the shocks of different cultures through the process of living with them, assimilating them, unifying them through the work process,” Ms. Isham. “A critic recently compared my work with the way a snake sheds skins, and it’s an apt way of putting it.”, “to dance back and forth.” Her abstract works included canvases filled with diaphanous color suggestive of clouds, as well as
Ms. Isham attended the private Garrison Forest School in Maryland before enrolling at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1950. She and Heyward Isham were married the same year., Ms. Isham was the first foreigner after World War II to study at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts. West Berlin also gave Ms. Isham her first solo show, in 1954 at the Galerie Springer.
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