Two catalog sales next week will focus on two of the art world's main media: oils on Tuesday and woodwork next Friday and Oct. 3. Five-figure prices are expected at both.

The oils will dominate the 600-lot, multi-estate sale at William H. Bunch Auctions/Appraisals beginning at noon Tuesday at the gallery in Chadds Ford and winding up with about 200 paintings by a variety of American and European artists. By far the most important will be 4 Scribes, a previously unknown oil on canvas by the African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) that should sell for $100,000 to $150,000, according to presale estimates in the online catalog accessible at www.williambunchauctions.com. (Online bidding is available through www.artfactauctions.com.)

The painting comes from the same West Coast estate that consigned the Mary and the Infant Jesus that Bunch sold a year ago for $200,000.

Another top painting in the sale is a European landscape, Italian Ruins in a Valley With Swans at Sunset, signed and dated 1863 by the American Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), which has a presale estimate of $50,000 to $100,000.

Also expected to bring four- and five-figure prices are an oil-on-canvas portrait of a woman in a hat by the French painter Marie Laurencin ($12,000 to $18,000); Figures in a Forest by George Cope, signed and dated 1904 ($8,000 to $12,000); Fruit and Crystal Compote Still Life by the 19th century German American George Forster ($6,000 to $9,000); and The Intruder, an oil-on-masonite by Harry Leith-Ross exhibited at the Frank S. Schwartz & Son gallery ($4,000 to $6,000).

Aside from the artwork the sale features furniture, notably a walnut Chester County child-size tall chest in the Queen Anne style ($8,000 to $12,000) and a George Nakashima burl and walnut credenza ($4,000 to $6,000); clocks, including a carved oak George II tall case clock with brass and silver dial, signed "Richard Midgley, Halifax" ($4,000 to $6,000); a wide variety of yellow ware bowls generally expected to sell for around $100; and vintage pieces - some more memorable than others.

They include a 1940 Ford F100 pickup truck with a California street-rod conversion and a new engine with fewer than 500 miles on it ($15,000 to $25,000); an RCA Symetra Colortrak 19-inch portable TV with a presentation plaque reading "November 17, 1978, 50,000,000 television set present to Edgar H. Griffiths, RCA president and CEO December SPP, 1978" ($100 to $200). (Those were the days.)

Previews are from noon to 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at the gallery at One Hillman Drive, off Route 202 just south of its intersection with Route 1. For more information, call 610-558-1800

Carvings at Pook & Pook. The woodwork will be highlighted throughout Pook & Pook Inc.'s two-day, 830-lot catalog sale at its gallery at 463 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown. One of the top presale estimates in the color-illustrated catalog is $30,000 to $50,000 for a late-19th-century carved and painted carousel giraffe that will be offered at the second session, beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 3.

It is one of the auction's many carved figures. In the Oct. 3 session are another carousel figure of a zebra made around 1900 with a presale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000; an American carved and painted tobacconist figure of an American Indian with a presale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000; and a pair of carved and painted female nudes, each 41 inches high, that were probably made for a theater organ or similar musical instrument, with a presale estimate of $20,000 to $40,000.

Along with jewelry and classic firearms - notably a Parker Brothers 12-gauge double-barrel ornately engraved shotgun ($10,000 to $15,000) - the opening session, beginning at 6 p.m. next Friday, features 40 lots of decoys, most with three-figure presale estimates.

The woodwork extends to furniture, of course, beginning next Friday with a Queen Anne walnut tall case clock made around 1770 in Montgomery County ($20,000 to $30,000) and a New England William and Mary walnut-veneer tall chest made around 1740 ($15,000 to $25,000). It continues the next day with an important late Chippendale mahogany desk and bookcase made in 1798 by Thomas Robinson of Wilmington ($25,000 to $45,000); a Lehigh County painted dower chest dated 1809 ($15,000 to $25,000); and, toward the session's end, another tall case clock, this one a Victorian carved oak attributed to R.J. Horner ($40,000 to $60,000).

Previews are from noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. next Friday and 8 a.m. to sale time Oct. 3. For more information, call 610-269-4040 or go to www.pookandpook.com.

Betty Gordon collection. Another important art sale will take place Oct. 3 when Jeffrey P. Fuller will feature works from the collection of the late Betty (Mrs. Maitland) Gordon at a sale beginning at noon at his gallery at 730 Carpenter Lane. Gordon was well known in Philadelphia art circles, including the Brandywine River Museum, and many of the auction items from her estate are expected to bring five-figure prices.

Among them are three landscapes by Claude Monet's protege Blanche Hosched-Monet, each expected to sell for $15,000 to $20,000; an oil on canvas Environs de Giverny by the American impressionist Theodore Earl Butler ($20,000 to $30,000); and a stone carving of two doves by the African American folk artist William Edmondson ($15,000 to $20,000).

Previews are from noon to 6 p.m. tomorrow and Monday through next Friday; there will be a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call 215-991-1800.

Contact David Iams at daiams@comcast.net.