Abstract Heinrich Blücher came to Bard College as a visiting professor in 1952, at the invitation of James Case, then President of the College. He developed the Common Course for freshmen at the college and became its director as well as the primary lecturer for the course, which took as its subject the history of philosophy. Over the course of the next seventeen years he taught at Bard and at the New School for Social Research (now The New School: a University in New York City), leaving scores of...

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The Mari Lyons Collection consists of exhibition ephemera, press clippings, correspondence and artwork documenting the life and career of Mari Sharon Blumenau Lyons (1935-2016) an American modern artist who was based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. Graduating from Bard College in 1957, Lyons career as an artist spanned the rest of her life and encompassed several solo and group exhibitions of which many are represented in this collection.