Francis P. Garvan: Collector
Paper, 76 pp., 23 black-and-white illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (May 8–September 28, 1980), published as a memorial to Mabel Brady Garvan, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Gift of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections to Yale University, with essays by Gerald W. R. Ward, Patricia E. Kane, and Helen A. Cooper.

In 1930, Francis Garvan, Yale 1897, gave his alma mater a large and important collection of early American Art, including such masterpieces as a pewter flagon made by Johann Christoph Heyne in 1771, John Rogers’s sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, Council of War (1868), and Robert Henri’s painting West 57th Street (1902). This slender volume assesses Garvan’s tastes and collecting methods, and two illuminating letters written by Garvan about the donation are reproduced as appendices.

Item# 1034
Price $10; Members $9
ISBN 0-89467-014-X

Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth
Hardcover, 162 pp., 92 full-page illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Jock Reynolds, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (April 23–July 28, 2002); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2002–January 6, 2003); Utah Museum of Fine Arts (April 18–July 13); Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana (August 23–November 30, 2003); James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (January 10–April 4, 2004); El Paso Museum of Art (May 2–July 18, 2004); Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (August 7–November 7, 2004); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (dates to be determined), with an essay and interview by Terry Tempest Williams and Philip Brookman.

The breathtaking large-format aerial photographs in this catalogue find stark poetry in ways that such factors as traffic, mining, and irrigation have altered the natural landscape of the United States, Israel, and the Czech Republic. Particularly stirring are patterns left in the Nevada desert by missile tests. In the words of environmentalist Williams, “Emmet Gowin has captured on film the state of our creation and, conversely, the beauty of our losses.”

Item# 13904
Price $45; Members $40.50
ISBN 0-300-09361-6

“A Great Panorama”: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of American Arts at Yale
Paper, 62 pp., color and black-and-white illus.

Published in 1998 on the occasion of the anniversary of  the Friends of American Arts at Yale, this book offers a colorful tour of the Gallery’s commitment to American arts since the 1973 creation of the Mabel Brady Garvan Galleries of American Art. The extraordinary collection of decorative arts is given particular attention, and other highlights of the period include such exhibitions as the ambitious and hotly debated American Prints: 1900–1950, the popular Winslow Homer Watercolors, and the intellectually provocative Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible, 1966–1973.

Item# 10843 
Price $3.50; Members $3.15

Greek Vases: A Guide to the Yale Collection
Paper, 44 pp., 20 black-and-white and color illus.
Susan B. Matheson

Published in 1988, this guide to Yale’s rich collection of Greek vases spans the Bronze Age through the fourth century B.C. Line drawings, a glossary, and a list of suggested reading help to make it useful as an introduction to Greek pottery and a study of ancient Greek life as well as a valuable title in the library of a classics scholar.

Item# 1035
Price $6; Members $5.40
ISBN 0-89467-048-4