Glenora Richards

Glenora Richards (February 18, 1909 – October 21, 2009) was an American miniature painter and designer of postage stamps.

[1][2] She met her future husband, Walter DuBois Richards, also a student at the CIA, while she was sketching at a department store.

[2] Timothy, a miniature portrait of her adolescent son, was awarded The National Association of Women Artists Prize at the organization's 1962 Annual Exhibition.

[4] Her miniature portrait of the prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was the basis for a U.S. postage stamp, issued in 1981.

[5][6] 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.