After 9/11: Photographs by Nathan Lyons
Hardcover, 176 pp., 152 duotones
ISBN 0-30010-182-1
Catalogue of the exhibition presented at Light Work, Syracuse, New York (August 20–October 15, 2003); Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York (September 2–October 1, 2003); Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (September 18–October 26, 2003); ACTA International, Rome, Italy (November 26–December 18, 2003), with introductory poem, “Flags Cleaned Free,” by Marvin Bell.

These poignant, surprising, touching black-and-white photographs were taken in New York City in the days and weeks after destruction of the World Trade Center. Founder of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, and recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, Lyons sees New York with sensitive yet clear eyes.

Item# 2354
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American Art: 1750–1800, Towards Independence
Paper, 321 pp., more than 250 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 0-82120-692-3
Catalogue of the exhibition, organized by Charles F. Montgomery, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (April 3–May 23, 1976) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (July 15–September 26, 1976), with essays by Montgomery, J. H. Plumb, Neil Harris, Jules David Prown, and Frank H. Sommer.

This wide-ranging book accompanied an ambitious exhibition that coincided with the United States bicentennial, featuring objects loaned by Her Majesty the Queen, among others. Thoughtful essays examine the rise of an American national identity on the world stage, while the extensively annotated illustrations document the concomitant development of styles in fine and applied arts.

Item# 8609
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American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
Hardcover, 485 pp., 25 color plates, 233 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-30003-357-5
Gerald W. R. Ward. Photographs by Charles Uht.

This handsome book, published in 1988, offers comprehensive descriptions of chests, dressers, desks, cupboards, and other types of furniture. Yale’s renowned collection is celebrated with color plates that reveal the beauty and craft of such objects as an ornately carved chest from late eighteenth-century Boston and a modernist 1950 sideboard by Dan Cooper. Ward’s introductory essay surveys the diverse uses to which these objects were put over the years.

Item# 103
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American Paintings at Yale University
Paper, 214 pp., several hundred black-and-white, thumbnail-size images
ISBN 0-89467-019-0
Compiled by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., and Galina Gorokhoff

Published in 1982, this comprehensive checklist provides basic information about the nearly 2,000 American paintings in the collection. Stebbins’s illuminating and well-researched introduction provides background on the development of the uniquely rich collection and the rise of the Gallery. In addition to a short list of “selected readings,” indices by title, accession number, and donor are provided, as well as an index of miniatures in the collection.

Item# 1192
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American Pewter: Garvan and Other Collections at Yale
Paper, 60 pp., 55 black-and-white illus.

This special issue of the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, published in fall 1965, catalogues Yale’s pewter collection, which ranges from 1740 to 1821. An introduction by Graham Hood provides an overview of the material’s history and use in American households and discusses manufacturing techniques.

Item# 1046
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American and English Pewter at the Yale University Art Gallery:
A Supplementary Checklist
Paper, 80 pp., hundreds of black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-89467-040-9

Published in 1985, twenty years after Graham Hood’s American Pewter: Garvan and Other Collections at Yale, this book surveys the expansions and refinements made to Garvan’s collection. In his introduction, David L. Barquist credits the vision and dedication of curator Charles Montgomery.

Item# 1045
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American Sculpture at Yale University
Paper, 218 pp., more than 400 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-058-1

Published in 1992, this comprehensive checklist provides basic data about American sculpture in the collection. Ranging in date from 1787 to 1990, the works chronicled include an exceptional representation of nineteenth-century marbles as well as twentieth-century avant-garde works by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and more. An essay by Paula B. Freedman provides a useful context, and indices by accession number, title, and donor are provided.

Item# 567
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American Silver from the Kossack Collection
Paper, 28 pp., 9 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-89467-049-2
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, organized by Patricia E. Kane, David L. Barquist, and Aline H. Zeno, and presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (February 11–June 12, 1988).

Checklist of the exhibition celebrating the Kossack Collection. The Kossack family’s gift to Yale of almost 4,400 objects, dating from about 1720 to 1890, preserves a part of American heritage and provides scholars with a rich assemblage of from which to gain a greater understanding of the role of silver in American life.

Item# 1047
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American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
Hardcover, 424 pages, 250 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 0-300-05240-5
David L. Barquist, with essays by Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett and Gerald W. R. Ward. Photographs by Charles Uht.

Published in 1992, this scholarly catalogue documents 140 tables and 47 mirrors from one of the largest and most important collections of American decorative arts ever assembled. Dating from the 1670s through 1990, these pieces are organized by style and presented with detailed information about structure, condition, and provenance. The essays offer keen insights into the social context and historic meaning of these noteworthy species of Americana.

Item# 102
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Ancient Bronzes: A Guide to the Yale Collection
Paper, 48 pp., 22 color illus., 2 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-89467-964-3
Matthew M. McCarty

Focusing on the Gallery’s collection, this book provides a basic introduction to ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes and acquaints the reader with the styles, subjects, and methods of manufacture of ancient Mediterranean bronze sculpture. Yale’s bronzes range in date from the Geometric to Hellenistic and Roman periods, exemplify myriad techniques, and depict animals, humans, deities, and more.

Item# 418
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Anni Albers: Pictorial Weavings
Paper, 16 pp., black and white
Catalogue of a 1959 exhibition. Collaborating institutions included the New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Beginning with a brief poem by the artist and featuring a cover by the influential graphic designer Norman Ives, this publication presents ten of Albers’s woven abstract works. A chronology of the artist is included.

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Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale
Paper, 229 pp., with 161 black-and-white and color figures
ISBN 0-89467-038-7
Gerry D. Scott, III

Published in 1986, this catalogue is an indispensable guide for Egyptologists as well as a celebration of Yale’s longstanding involvement in the field. As the first comprehensive view of the Egyptian holdings in the Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Yale University Art Gallery—which range from the prehistoric period through the Roman conquest—it includes images of and information about such treasures as Bust of a Ptolemaic King as well as pieces never before included in a publication. With index.

Item# 1048
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Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection
Paper, 44 pp., 40 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-956-2
R. A. Grossmann

Published in 2002, this guide is organized for easy use by students and scholars, with sections devoted to blowing, casting, and less familiar techniques, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and listing of important collections. Illustrations from Yale’s fine collection of objects and vessels from the Mediterranean enliven the text and are a pleasure to examine in their own right.

Item# 14612
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The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes
Hardcover, 150 pp., 42 color plates, 15 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-300-09075-7
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Alexandra Monroe, Wu Hung, and for Yale by David Sensabaugh, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (October 12–December 9, 2001); the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (January 24–March 31, 2002); and the Honolulu Academy of Arts (October 2–December 1, 2002). With essays by Monroe, Richard M. Barnhart, Johnathan Hay, and Wu Hung.

Mu Xin, a formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, is well known for his complex writings and paintings and is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities. The publication focuses on a group of thirty-three landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted in 1978–79, in the immediate aftermath of the Great Cultural Revolution. Many of these works have never been exhibited or published in the West. In addition, the book features Mu Xin’s Prison Notes, some sixty-six calligraphic sheets that were written when the artist was in solitary confinement in China in 1972.

Item# 2250
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Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery
Hardcover, 300 pp., 238 black-and-white and color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-953-8
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art for Yale: Defining Moments, organized by Helen A. Cooper, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (April 9–August 19, 2001). Publication organized and written by Susan B. Matheson.

This book tells the definitive story of the Gallery—its collections, donors, artists, faculty, students, and staff—from its founding in 1832 through the present day. Splendid archival photos and images from the collection complement Matheson’s narrative of the rise of the first college art museum in the United States and some of its most exciting chapters, including the 1867 gift of Old Master paintings from James Jackson Jarves and the 1942 arrival of an extraordinary modern collection formed by Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. A comprehensive list of exhibitions is provided.

Item# 13594
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Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery
A paper version of the above is available.
ISBN 0-89467-955-4

Item# 13595
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With more than 300 objects, dating from ancient times to the present day, Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century marks the Gallery’s 175th anniversary and the centennial of Paul Mellon’s birth. Representing both the full scope and special strengths of the Gallery’s encyclopedic holdings, this publication highlights many of the exceptional works acquired during the last decade. Gallery director Jock Reynolds chronicles the history of exhibiting and collecting at Yale in his introduction, and the richly illustrated plate section is followed by texts on selected objects written by Yale University Art Gallery curators and curatorial assistants, and scholars from across the country.

Item# 114
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Artists on Art: Observations by Yale Faculty on Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery
Paper, 72 pp., color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-087-5

Published in 1999, this unique volume grew out of a series of talks conceived and edited by Gallery curator Daphne Anderson Deeds. The sterling array of speakers included novelist Robert Stone on Thomas Eakins’s The Veteran (“He is in possession of dreadful secrets that we cannot speak”) and architect Cesar Pelli on a trio of paintings by Piet Mondrian, Hans Holbein, and a thirteenth-century associate of Bonaventura Berlinghieri. Other original perspectives in this interdisciplinary project are given on works by Marcel Duchamp, Claude Monet, Hieronymus Bosch, and more.

Item# 10761
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Asia Has Claims Upon New England: Assyrian Reliefs of Yale
Paper, 42 pp., 17 color and 2 black-and-white illus.
ISBN 0-89467-965-1
Samuel B. Harrison

This short guide examines Yale’s Assyrian reliefs in the context of Assyrian art and the intellectual and religious climate that inspired their acquisition by the Gallery in 1853. These reliefs are among Yale’s earliest acquisitions and greatest artistic treasures.

Item# 419
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