This catalogue for an exhibition presented at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1980, published in honor of the late Mabel Brady Garvan, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the gift of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collections to Yale University. In 1930 Francis P. Garvan, B.A. 1897, gave Yale a large and important collection of early American art in honor of his wife, Mabel, including such masterpieces as a pewter flagon made by Johann Christoph Heyne (1771), John Rogers’s sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, titled Council of War (1868), and Robert Henri’s painting West 57th Street (1902). Three essays discuss Garvan’s collecting philosophy, his collection of American decorative arts, and his collection of paintings, prints, and sculpture. Two appendices reproduce letters from Garvan presenting the collections to the University.