578. Willard Grayson Smythe (American, b.1906), "Composition #125", c.1940; gouache/board, 8" x 5", signed, from the estate of the artist. Important Chicago non-objective painter. Smythe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited there throughout the 1940s; he also exhibited at the Non-Objective Museum (Solomon Guggenheim). 600-800

579. Willard Grayson Smythe (American, b.1906), "Musical Arrangement", c.1940; gouache/board, 11" x 8", signed, from the estate of the artist. Important Chicago non-objective painter. Smythe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited there throughout the 1940s; he also exhibited at the Non-Objective Museum (Solomon Guggenheim). A striking non-objective image, highly indicative of Smythe's style. 1000-1500

580. Willard Grayson Smythe (American, b.1906), "Abstract Composition", c.1940; gouache/board, 8" x 5", signed, from the estate of the artist. Important Chicago non-objective painter. Smythe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and exhibited there throughout the 1940s; he also exhibited at the Non-Objective Museum (Solomon Guggenheim). 600-800

581. Lee Atkyns (American, b.1913), "View from the Park", c.1940; oil/board, 18" x 24", signed. Washington D.C. modernist. Atkyns exhibited throughout the 1940s at the National Academy, Boston Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery, and Georgetown Gallery. 300-500

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