Glenora Richards

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.

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.

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.

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.

Richards painted miniature portraits and designed postage stamps.

• "Tim Richards as a Baby (b. 1941)" - 1943, watercolor on ivory, Yale University Art Gallery
• "Henry Tracy Richards" - ca. 1955, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum

• "Artist: Glenora Richards, American, 1909 - 2009 Tim Richards as a Baby (b. 1941)". Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University. Retrieved 31 December 2015. 
• "Henry Tracy Richards". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 31 December 2015.