Myra Reynolds Richards

Myra Reynolds Richards (31 January 1882 – 1934) was an

American sculptor and teacher. She was born in Indianapolis. She studied at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis mainly under Mary Y. Robinson, Roda Selleck, and Otto Stark, J. Ottis Adams, William Forsyth, Clifton Wheeler, Rudolf Schwarz, and George Julian Zolnay. She also studied in New York under Isidore Konti and in Paris with Charles Despiau at the Académie Scandinave.

She was an instructor of anatomy and modelling class at the Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis from 1920. She become the head of department of anatomy and sculpture at Herron Art Institute before her resignation at 1929.

Selected works

James Whitcomb Riley statue, Hancock County Courthouse, Greenfield, Indiana, 1918 Murphy Memorial Drinking Fountain, at the Carroll County Courthouse, 1918 Pan, 1923. Richards' Pan was stolen in 1970 and the current work is a replacement. Syrinx, 1923. Richards' Syrinx was stolen in 1959 and the current statue is a replacement. The Bird Boy, 1924, at the Columbus Central Middle School

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American women sculptors

Artists from Indianapolis

1882 births

1934 deaths

Herron School of Art and Design faculty

20th-century American sculptors

20th-century American women artists

Sculptors from Indiana

20th-century American women sculptors