Francis Patrick Garvan papers
name: label: Creator
content: Garvan, Mabel Brady
label: Creator
content: Garvan, Francis P. (Francis Patrick), 1875-1937
label: Names
content: American Art Association
label: Names
content: Garvan Collection  (Yale University)
label: Names
content: Macbeth Gallery
label: Names
content: O'Reilly's Plaza Art Galleries
label: Names
content: Parke-Bernet Galleries
label: Names
content: Yale University -- Art collections
label: Names
content: Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933
label: Names
content: Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959
label: Names
content: Ensko, Robert
label: Names
content: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942
label: Names
content: Jones, E. Alfred (Edward Alfred), 1872-1943
label: Names
content: Keough, Andrew, 1869-1953
label: Names
content: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955
label: Names
content: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941
label: Names
content: Phillips, John Marshall, 1905-1953
topic: label: Occupation
content: Collectors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1981 by Anthony N. B. Garvan and Phil Hoyt for the estate of Mabel Brady Garvan.
creator: label: Creator
content: Garvan, Mabel Brady
label: Creator
content: Garvan, Francis P. (Francis Patrick), 1875-1937
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content: Francis Patrick Garvan papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of art collector Francis Patrick Garvan measure 44.9 linear feet and date from 1912 to 1953, with one document from 1867. The papers provide extensive documentation on the Garvan collection which included rare books, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, and furniture.  The majority of the collection consists of inventory records that give descriptive information regarding each piece in the collection; in many cases the files also include a photograph of the object. Also found are correspondence and subject files; auction records for sales at the American Art Association, Parke-Bernet Galleries, and Plaza Art Galleries; loan records; estate records; and a small amount of printed material, writings, and photographs.  Approximately half of the Garvan papers were created posthumously by Mabel Brady Garvan and the managers of Garvan's estate.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Francis Patrick Garvan (1875-1937) and his wife Mabel Brady Garvan were art collectors in the 1920s and 1930s, specializing in decorative arts and furniture.  Professionally, Garvan was a lawyer who spent the majority of his career serving as President of the Chemical Foundation, to which he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson. He maintained relationships with many prominent museums and galleries including the American Art Association, the Anderson Galleries, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.  Over the course of his life, Garvan had amassed a collection of thousands of decorative and fine art objects. During his final years, Garvan arranged for the majority of his art collection to be donated to Yale University, his alma mater.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44.9 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1953
label: Date
content: 1867
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.garvfran
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 8 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Correspondence and Subject Files, 1912-1942, 1953 (11.5 linear feet; Boxes 1-12, 46)

Series 2: Auction Records, circa 1930s-1949 (1.75 linear feet; Boxes 12-13)

Series 3: Loan Records, 1919-1948 (3.0 linear feet; Boxes 14-16, 46)

Series 4: Estate Records, 1929-1951 (0.75 linear feet; Box 17, 45)

Series 5: Inventory, 1928-1949 (26.0 linear feet;  Boxes 17-43)

Series 6: Printed Materials, 1867, 1926-1949 (1.0 linear foot; Boxes 43-44, 46)

Series 7: Writings, 1930s (0.3 linear feet; Box 44)

Series 8: Photographic Materials, 1930s-1940s (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 44-45, 47)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection processed to a minimal level and a finding aid created by Dominique Luster in 2014.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of art collector Francis Patrick Garvan measure 44.9 linear feet and date from 1912 to 1953, with one document from 1867. The papers provide extensive documentation on the Garvan collection which included rare books, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, and furniture.  The majority of the collection consists of inventory records that give descriptive information regarding each piece in the collection; in many cases the files also include a photograph of the object. Also found are correspondence and subject files; auction records for sales at the American Art Association, Parke-Bernet Galleries, and Plaza Art Galleries; loan records; estate records; and a small amount of printed material, writings, and photographs.  Approximately half of the Garvan papers were created posthumously by Mabel Brady Garvan and the managers of Garvan's estate.

Notable correspondence is with antique, art and rare book dealers, museums, curators, conservators, Garvan's employees, George Parmly Day, Andrew Keough, and John Marshall Phillips of Yale University regarding the 1930 gift of the [Mabel Brady] Garvan Collection to Yale, as well as the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., Francis Bigelow, Robert Ensko, Richard T. Haines Halsey, E. Alfred Jones, Fiske Kimball, William Macbeth, Inc., Wallace Nutting, Richard W. Symonds, and others.