Eleanor de Laittre

Eleanor de Laittre (April 3, 1911 – January 9, 1998) was an American visual artist and an early proponent of abstract, cubist-inspired, and largely non-objective art. During a period when representational art was the norm in the United States, she adhered to a style that was based on her study of paintings by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Raoul Dufy. and in 1950 said she was one of the best-known American contemporary abstractionists. There were no children from either of Shepard's marriages.

Following Lienau's death, de Laittre married Robert MacMillan, an author and retired editor at the New Yorker magazine. He was born in 1910 and resided during his working career in New York. He died in 1991 in Santa Barbara, California. MacMillan had previously been married to Cecile Gilmore, a journalist and author of romantic fiction stories and novels. When young, both MacMillan and Gilmore had worked as writers and editors for New York newspapers.