Full Name Glenora Case Spouse(s) Walter DuBois Richards | Nationality American | |
Known for Portrait miniaturesPostage stamp design Died 21 October 2009, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Glenora richards painting a watercolor march 2009
Glenora Richards (February 18, 1909 – October 21, 2009) was an American miniature painter and designer of postage stamps. She was named the "greatest miniature painter of her time, and perhaps ever," by collector Lewis Rabbage.
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- Glenora richards painting a watercolor march 2009
- Glenora richards sketch story
- Early life and education
- Mid life and career
- Later life and legacy
- Work
- Notable collections
- References
Glenora richards sketch story
Early life and education
Glenora Case was born in 1909 in New London, Ohio. Her parents were Bertha and Tracy Case.
She attended high school in Litchfield, Ohio. In high school, she played violin. She studied art at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) in the 1920s. 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.
Mid-life and career
In 1941, the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where she would live until just before her death in 2009. She had two children: Timothy Walter (1941-2011) and Henry Tracy (1946-2006). In 1953, she was awarded the National Association of Women Artists' medal of honor.
Later life and legacy
Walter died in 2006. Richards died in 2009 in a nursing home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She continued to paint and upon her death, she was the last surviving member of the American Society of Miniature Painters.
Work
Richards painted miniature portraits and designed postage stamps.