Glenora Richards

Glenora Richards (February 18, 1909 – October 21, 2009) was an American miniature painter and designer of postage stamps. The collector Lewis Rabbage called her the "greatest miniature painter of her time, and perhaps ever."

She attended high school in Litchfield, Ohio, where she played the violin. She met her future husband, Walter DuBois Richards, also a student at the CIA, while she was sketching at a department store. The couple married and moved to New York City.

Work and recognition

Richards painted miniature portraits and designed postage stamps.

Her miniature portrait of the prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was the basis for a U.S. postage stamp, issued in 1981. She also designed a postage stamp to commemorate Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a U.S. Army surgeon who was the first woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Works in public collections Tim Richards as a Baby, 1943, watercolor on ivory, Yale University Art Gallery Portrait of Henry Tracy Richards, mid-20th century, watercolor on ivory substitute, Philadelphia Museum of Art Henry Tracy Richards, ca. 1955, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum