“Baubles, Bangles, and Beads: American Jewelry from Yale University, 1700-2005” will be on view February 7 to July 23 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street (on the corner of High Street).

Mourning rings, miniatures, knee buckles, bracelets and other selections from the gallery’s collections of gold, silver and costume jewelry are presented in this exhibition. Many objects are on public view for the first time.

From a necklace of gold beads created by a Colonial goldsmith to insignia from the Society of the Cincinnati and the masons, from 1930s era Bakelite bracelets to studio jewelry from some of the country’s finest contemporary artisans, the exhibition reveals how Americans have adorned and accessorized themselves for more than 200 years.

A gallery talk by the curator takes place on Wednesday, February 22, at 12:20 pm. In addition, a special three-part master class, “Jewelry in America,” is being offered on Thursday evenings, March 30, April 6 and April 13. For more information, call 203-432-9525.

An accompanying full-color catalog, Baubles, Bangles, and Beads: American Jewelry from Yale University, 1700-2005, written by Erin E. Eisenbarth, will be available in February for purchase online (artgallery.yale.edu) or at the gallery’s bookstore. For details, call 203-432-7421.

Eisenbarth, acting assistant curator of American decorative arts, organized the exhibition.

One of a pair of watercolor on ivory miniatures originally worn on velvet ribbons; an unidentified artist reset it in the 1850s in an elaborate French filigreed bracelet in keeping with Rococo Revival tastes. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Caroline Hillman Backlund and Hermione Hillman Wickenden in memory of their mother, Dorothy Woodruff Hillman.

Also on view, through the spring, is “Private Faces of PublicPeople: 1750-1900,” an exhibition of American miniatures from thegallery’s collection that features 29 portraits of leaders inpolitics and the arts, including George and Martha Washington,Andrew Jackson, Benjamin West and Paul Revere.

“American Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts” is an ongoing exhibition presenting a range of works. It includes one of the earliest American portraits of John Davenport, the first minister to the New Haven Colony, through mid-Twentieth Century paintings by artists such as Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton, among others. Examples of furniture, turned wood, glass and pewter and other metals are also on display.

“Selections from the Permanent Collection,” an ongoing exhibition, highlights masterpieces including Vincent van Gogh’s “The Night Café,” 1888, and works by Frans Hals, Edouard Manet and Peter Paul Rubens, among others. Important works from the collections of African, Asian and ancient American art are also featured.

The Sculpture Hall’s ongoing selection presents more than 120 sculptures from the collections of ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Near Eastern, early European and Asian art.

For information, www.artgallery.yale.edu or 203-432-0600.