Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures green and brown and sure do love the

and sure do love the hand-painted man in tall hat

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and imagine that he referred to it quite a lot

with no chips or cracks

Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures green and brown and sure do love theI 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