Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures booth's Fine lines suggesting reeds extend

Fine lines suggesting reeds extend gracefully across the lid and down the front side of the box

4 1/8" tall x 2 1/4" wide x 3" deep

as is the bottom of the interior tray

They are stamped at the base of their sides with a prominent M (which led me to believe these might be the work of Warren McKenzie

I have had no luck finding anything like this tabletop top bird sculpture anywhere out there

Lois Gross Smiley Vintage Mixed Media Painting of Two Figures booth's Fine lines suggesting reeds extendI 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