575. Louise Woodroofe (American, early 20th century), "Abstract Composition", c.1950; paintstick/paper, 8" x 10", signed. Woodroofe worked in Champaign, IL, and later taught at the University of Illinois. During the 1930s she traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus, painting various scenes of circus life, then in the late 1940s-60s, she turned to abstraction, working frequently in collage. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, National Association of Watercolor Painters, Cincinnati Art Museum (1920s), Butler Art Institute, and at galleries in New York. 300-500

576. Willard Grayson Smythe (American, b.1906), "Composition", c.1940; watercolor/paper, 14" x 10", signed. Important Chicago non-objective painter. Smythe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as exhibiting there in the 1930s. He also exhibited at the Typographic Artists (1920s-40s), Great Lakes Exhibition (1939), and the American Institute of Graphic Artists (1937). He taught at the Art Institute from 1928-40s. 500-700

577. Louise Woodroofe (American, early 20th century), "Abstract Composition", c.1950; paintstick/paper, 8" x 10", signed. Woodroofe worked in Champaign, IL, and later taught at the University of Illinois. During the 1930s she traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus, painting various scenes of circus life, then in the late 1940s-60s, she turned to abstraction, working frequently in collage. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, National Association of Watercolor Painters, Cincinnati Art Museum (1920s), Butler Art Institute, and at galleries in New York. 300-500

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