Norah (Nura) Woodson Ulreich, painter, lithographer, muralist, textile artist, ceramist, sculptor, author and illustrator, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1899. She first studied at the Kansas City Art Institute before attending the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Student's League in New York. She subsequently studied under John French Sloan and Frederic Rodrigo Gruger. She then lived and painted for several years in Paris where she exhibited widely and with success, including at the Salon d'Automne, and where she met and married her husband, the artist Buk Ulreich.

After returning to the United States, Ulreich continued to exhibit with success, including at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work was included three times in the Corcoran Gallery International Biennials (1928-39). She was a member of and exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists (1928, 1941), and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1929-1931). In 1939, the exhibition “Nura Ulreich: Paintings” was mounted at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center.

Nura illustrated and wrote children books: “The Buttermilk Tree” which was published by the author in 1934; “Nura's Garden of Betty and Booth” published by William Morrow in 1935; “The Silver Bridge” published by the author in 1937; “Nura's Children Go Visiting” published by The Studio publications, Inc. in 1943; “All Aboard, We Are Off” published by The Studio publications, Inc. in 1944; “The Mitty Children Fix Things” published by the Junior Literary Guild and American Studio Books in 1946; and “The Kitten Who Listened” published by Harper in 1950. Her books won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts.