20th Century Art & Design Auction held on Sunday, March 5th at The John Toomey Gallery located in Oak Park (a Chicago suburb) at 818 North Blvd. phone: 708.383.5234. This important three session sale contains over 1100 lots. Our sale begins with an Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau session containing over 590 lots of furniture, from Gustav Stickley, L&JG Stickley and Limbert., Woodblocks by Gustave Baumann, a large selection of ceramics including Rookwood, Overbeck, Weller, Roseville, Newcomb, George Ohr, as well as a large collection of Longwy and other European Art Pottery. There will be a nice selection of lamps including Handel, Jefferson, and a rare Teco lamp base with a leaded eight sided shade, Examples of metalwork, graphics and textiles, paintings, and glass including Tiffany, Steuben and Quezal. Session two contains nearly 250 lots of paintings including T.C. Steele, Robert Grafton, Wilson Irving, William Hart William Doerner, Frank Dudley, Willaim Schwartz, Gregory Orloff, and others. Art Deco/1950s/Modern session three has over 300 lots including furniture from such designers as Gilbert Rohde, Paul Frankl, Marcel Brewer, Eero Saarinen, Harvey Probber and many others.
