Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures knife set mottled oatmeal colored glaze and

mottled oatmeal colored glaze and hand-painted dark brown details

8 1/2" straight across

One example

with a tightly fitting lid that takes a bit of pressure to open

the shape: I love everything about these Japanese fish plates

Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures knife set mottled oatmeal colored glaze andI 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