20th Century Art & Design

Auction Details

Treadway/Toomey Galleries, announces their Sunday, May 15th, 20th Century Art and Design Auction located at the John Toomey Gallery in Oak Park Illinois. Included are over 1000 lots of furniture, lighting, metalwork, pottery, and glassware from the Arts and Crafts/Art Nouveau period through a broad range of Modern Design, as well as a selection of fine European and American paintings, prints, and sculpture. The first session will feature several important Gustave Baumann woodblocks, an early Gustav Stickley chest of drawers, and a nice selection of Frank Lloyd Wright furniture and other Arts & Crafts designs. A fine collection of Handel lamps as well as European and American Art Pottery. There is also a large selection of metalware and a nice assortment of Arts & Crafts prints. Session two include a mixture of traditional and modern paintings by such artists Carl Krafft, Theodore Steele, James Beckwith, Charles Dahlgreen, John Hardrick, Lawrence McConaha, William Eyden, Tunis Ponsen and others. Fine sculptures by Ettore Colla, and others The third and final session of the sale, 1950s/Modern. Such designers as, George Nelson, Thaden-Jordan, Eames, Noguchi, Paulin, Harvey Probber, , Knoll, Mies van der Rohe, Paul Frankl, Higgins, Wormley, Paul McCobb, Scarpa, Frank Lloyd Wright, Finn Juhl, and much more.
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Arts and Crafts vase241Arts and Crafts vase
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Unusual Arts and Crafts vase, italy, finely hammered copper, original patina, impressed mark,7in.w x 2.5in.h,very nice
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for 200.00
Hayno Focken vase, German, hammered242Hayno Focken vase, German, hammered
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Hayno Focken vase, german, hammered copper, unusual and well made cylindrical waisted form, excellent original patina, 7.25in.h, signed,very nice
Estimate : 450.00 - 650.00
Sold to bittercreek for 490.00
Gustav Stickley desk,#710 rectangular243Gustav Stickley desk,#710 rectangular
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Early Gustav Stickley desk,#710 rectangular top over drawer and kneehole compartment flanked by two half drawers, original copper hardware, paneled si
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to floor for 1,100.00
Rookwood tile, geometric design244Rookwood tile, geometric design
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Nice Rookwood tile, swirling geometric design in blue and white, in an Arts and Crafts oak frame, dated 1954,#1212,6in.sq.
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Sold to floor for 325.00
Lifetime desk #8570246Lifetime desk #8570
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Good Lifetime desk,#8570, nice form has a slant top over two drawers with original hardware, paneled sides, thru-tenon construction, original finish,
Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,200.00
Sold to floor for 2,000.00
Rookwood tile,design of four tulips247Rookwood tile,design of four tulips
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Good Rookwood tile, design of four tulips in a nice ivory, blue and green matt glaze, held in an Arts and Crafts oak frame, dated 1921, #1631,5.5in.sq
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for 700.00
Nice Grueby vase,large tapered form248Nice Grueby vase,large tapered form
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Nice Grueby vase, large tapered form with sculpted and applied leaves with pale yellow buds under a suspended light green matt, artist signed, impress
Estimate : 5,500.00 - 7,500.00
Sold to floor for 4,000.00
Pewabic vase,tapered form249Pewabic vase,tapered form
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Exceptional Pewabic vase, tapered form covered with a brown, red and green metallic drip glaze with a good overall iridescence, marked,8.25in.h,very g
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
Sold to floor for 2,000.00
Rookwood vase, matt green glaze250Rookwood vase, matt green glaze
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Monumetal Rookwood vase, good matt green gl aze wi th i nci sed Arts and Crafts desi gn, dated 1909,#1093,21in.h, a l arge and i mpressi ve exampl e o
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Sold to floor for 3,750.00
Newcomb Guild vase, and  Newcomb Guild vase251Newcomb Guild vase, and Newcomb Guild vase
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Newcomb Guild vase, hand-thrown form in a turquoise glaze, paper label,7.5in.h; with a Newcomb Guild bowl,(not shown), hand-thrown form in a gray and
Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Sold to floor for 400.00