Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures green and brown With its handy loop handle

With its handy loop handle on the lid

with no chips or cracks

which only adds to the “may the sun—or moon—shine on you wherever you go” feeling of this piece

picking it up occasionally

and imagine that he referred to it quite a lot

Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures green and brown With its handy loop handleI purchased this painting by Lois Gross Smiley (1925 2018) out of the studio of her estate in Wellesley, MA. Born in New York City in 1925, Smiley attended the Dalton School in New York, where she studied under Mexican muralist Rufino Tamayo and the abstract expressionist Vaclav Vytlacil. Smiley went on to major in painting at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her BA in 1946, studying art history under German expressionist Kurt Roesch and