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 Sheila Isham © Photo by Martin Brett Axon ) Cosmic Myth Polar Bear, 1986 Oil On Linen 62 3/4" x 62 3/4" ) Cosmic Earth, 2002 Oil On Linen 66" x 50 1/4" ) Cosmic Earth ) White Artic |
Sheila Isham Biography "Skyfields", Box 443, Sagaponack, NY 11962, Studio, 56 Mariner Drive, Southampton, NY 11968, (631) 283-6297, Fax (631) 287-9447 EDUCATION University of Geneva, Switzerland; 1948-49 Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA; B.A. 1950 Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany; 1950-54 Studied Classical Chinese Calligraphy, Hong Kong; 1962-65 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Brockton Art Center, Brockton, Massachusetts Castellani Museum of Art, Niagara, New York Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Library of Congress, Washington, DC Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philamonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut United States Embassy Residences, in conjunction with The Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State (over sixty embassies throughout the world) CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Peat Marwick Mitchell and Company, Washington, DC Bendix, Washington, DC; Colombia, Maryland Rich Products, Buffalo, New York Cannon Corporation, Washington, DC; Buffalo, New York Burton Boards, Burlington, Vermont SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Mr. Jake Carpenter Mr. Graham Gund Mr. Seymour H. Knox III Mr. and Mrs. Harold Newman Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Rockefeller ONE-PERSON MAJOR MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; 1961 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; 1974 Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; 1974, 1981 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami, Florida; 1977 Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; 1997 National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; 1981 Georgia Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; 1993 Philamonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida; 1993 Fernbank - Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia; 1995 Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia; 1998 Russian State Museum, St. Michaels Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia; 2004 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; 2005 ONE-PERSON GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany; 1954 Bader Gallery, Washington, DC; 1960, 1962 Chatam Galleries, Hong Kong; 1964 Nihonbashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; 1964 Byron Gallery, New York, New York; 1966 Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC; 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York; 1969, 1971, 1998 French & Company, New York, New York; 1970 American Cultural Center, Paris, France; 1973 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York; 1973 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; 1975 Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, DC; 1976 United States State Department Exhibition, Washington, DC; 1978 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC; 1980 Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC; 1982 Phoenix II Gallery, Washington, DC; 1982 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York; 1985, 1986 Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York; 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992 Amerika Haus, Berlin, West Germany; 1988 Galerie Springer, Berlin, West Germany; 1988 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, New York; 1990 Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany; 1990 Central Europe Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia; 1992 Eri Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; 1994 Cultural Center of Zalaegerszeg, Hungary; 1995 American Center, Sofia, Bulgaria; 1995 Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Rumania; 1995 Gallery Mx, Riga, Latvia; 1998 Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, New York; 1998 Gregory Gallery, New York, New York; 1999 Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2000 Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; 2000 Onisaburo Gallery, Interfaith Center of New York, New York; 2001 Shridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi, India; 2002 Island Arts Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island; 2001, 2003 TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS Selected works of Sheila Isham, organized by Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC; travelled to Miami, New Orleans, the West Indies, and throughout South America; 1977 Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, sponsored by USIA; travelled to New Delhi, Bombay, and Boroda, India; 1989 "Cosmic Earth Bull Series", Oil Paintings and "Mythical Escapape Series" - Collages; travelling through Central Europe and Russia aided by Sauros Foundation and USIA, 1992-1999 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Prints 1959 Print Council of America Library of Congress, Washington, DC "14th Area Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1960 Library of Congress, Washington, DC 1960 Boston Museum Print Show, Boston, Massachusetts 1960 Brooklyn Museum Annual Print Show, Brooklyn, New York 1962 Library of Congress, Washington, DC "l5th Area Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1963 Library of Congress, Washington, DC 1971 "Graphics Multiples," Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York PAINTINGS 1967 "18th Area Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1970 "Washington, 20 Years," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1971 "New Washington Painting," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972 "Three American Painters," Darthea Speyer Gallery, Paris, France 1973 "Flowing Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; The Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida; The Le Moyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida 1974 "Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art," Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida 1975 "Works on Paper," Elkon Gallery, New York, New York 1984 "Poets and Painters," Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York 2004 Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, New York 2005 "New York Beasts on the Beach", The Salt Queen Foundation, Southampton, NY PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of the Board, Southampton Cultural Center, Southampton, New York Member, Art Advisory Committee of Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Leading Articles - Newspapers The Washington Post, 1960, 1972, 1974 The Statesman, New Delhi, 1989 New York Herald Tribune, 1961 Newsday, 1990 The Washington Star, 1974, 1981 The Prague Post, 1992 Buffalo Evening News, 1974 The East Hampton Star, 1998, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000 Aiken Standard, 1986 The Baltic Times, 1998 New York Times, 1988, 1998 Smena, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998 Berliner Illustrierte, 1989 The Southampton Independent, 1999 The Times of India, 1989 Philadelphia Inquirer, 2000 Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India, 2002 Leading Articles - Magazines &am; Books Arts, 1970 Leading Essays for Catalogues written by Edward Fry: Brockton, 1972; Corcoran, 1974; Albright Knox, 1981 Leading Essay for Travelling Show Exhibition written by Gene Baro, 1977 New York Post Magazine, 1979 News, Smithsonian Institution, 1981 The Buffalo News Magazine, 1981 The Washington Post Magazine, 1982 Profiles on Women Artists (book), Alexander Russo, 1985 Leading Essays for Catalogues written by Donald Kuspit: Springer Gallery, Amerika Haus, Berlin, 1988; Amerika Haus, Cologne, 1990; and Travelling Exhibition, Central Europe, 1990-95 SunStorm Magazine, 1988 Span, USIA Magazine, India, 1989 Quest Magazine, 1990 American Artist, 1997 Leading Essay for Catalogue written by Sasha Borovsky, Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998 Art News, New York, 2000 Hamptons Magazine, 2000 Reference Works Who's Who in America Who's Who in American Women Films "Painting Poems: East and West," Smithsonian Institution video, 1981 "The Voyager," On Track Video, 1985 "Transformation," Work in progress, 1987 "An Artist's Odyssey," Odyssey Associates, Inc., 1987 "Wild Animals", Ovid, 1996 TEACHING POSITIONS HELD / LECTURES Chinese University, Hong Kong: Contemporary Arts; 1962-65 United States Information Services Lecture: Paris, 1972; Haiti, 1976; Bombay, 1982; New Delhi, 1987 Washington Women's Art Center, Washington, DC; 1977, 1979 George Washington University Gallery, Washington, DC; 1978 Smithsonian Institution, "China and I," Lecture Series: East and West, Painting Poems by Sheila Isham, Washington, DC; February, 1981 Bryn Mawr College, "China and I," Lecture Series, Pennsylvania; 1982 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; 1985 Lecture Series on Travelling Show, India, 1989 United States Information Service, New Delhi, Bombay, 1989 Lecture Series on Travelling Show, Central Europe and Russia, 1992-99 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; 2001 CHRONOLOGY 1948-49 Studied at University of Geneva, Switzerland 1950 B.A., Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania 1950 Married Heyward Isham, Foreign Service Officer 1950-54 Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Germany 1955-57 Lived in Moscow, Russia 1957-62 Lived in Washington, DC 1962-65 Lived in Hong Kong 1965-71 Lived in Washington, DC 1971-73 Lived in Paris, France and Southampton, New York 1973-77 Lived in Haiti and Southampton, New York Present Living in New York City and Southampton, New York Children: Christopher Isham, Ralph Isham |
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