Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures mid-century copper necklace this is the one I

this is the one I brought home

measures 4 1/2" tall x 1 7/8" in diameter

some wear of paint along the edges of the lid and base where they meet

with a little wear showing in a few areas on the top of the box

native to Southeast Asia

Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures mid-century copper necklace this is the one II 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