Toomey & Co. Auctioneers sets out to redefine collecting with new sale

Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will present Tradition & Innovation, its inaugural auction of important works from the 19th century through today on December 2 at 10 a.m. CST. This sale offers items across a variety of artistic movements and media by painters, furniture makers, designers, ceramicists, silversmiths, sculptors and architects who have helped define the world of art and design for more than a century. Fine art includes four works by Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was most recently featured in a retrospective exhibit at New York’s Karma Gallery, and Gladys Nilsson, a member of Chicago Imagist group, “Hairy Who”, currently featured in an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Other artists include Chicagoans Ed Paschke, Ed Flood and Richard Howard Hunt, as well as a Sol LeWitt sculpture estimated at $100,000-200,000, a 1955 painting by Charles Green Shaw, Edgar Payne’s Twin Peaks, estimated at $