Glenora Richards
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February 18, 1909
Postage stamp design
Glenora Richards | |
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| Born | Glenora Case February 18, 1909 New London, Ohio, United States |
| Died | October 21, 2009 (aged 100) Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States |
| Known for | Portrait miniatures Postage stamp design |
| Spouse | Walter DuBois Richards |
| Awards | Medal of Honor, National Association of Women Artists 1953 National Association of Women Artists Prize 1962 |
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."[1]
Glenora Case was born in 1909 in New London, Ohio. Her parents were Bertha and Tracy Case.[1]
She attended high school in Litchfield, Ohio, where she played the violin.[1] She studied art at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) in the 1920s.[1][2] 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.[1]
In 1941, the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where she lived until just before her death in 2009.[1] She had two children.
Walter Richards died in 2006 and Glenora Richards died in 2009 at a nursing home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.[1] She continued to paint and upon her death, she was the last surviving member of the American Society of Miniature Painters.[3]