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Bard College Archives

Bard College Archives

Stevenson Library
1 Library Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, United States
Bard College Archives & Special Collections collects, preserves and makes available materials in a variety of formats relating to the intellectual and social history of Bard College and its surrounding communities.

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Lyons, Mari
The collection contains three paintings and thirteen sketchbooks created by Mari Lyons, Bard ’57; it was donated by her husband Nick Lyons after her death in 2016. Mari Sharon Blumenau Lyons (1935-2016) graduated in 1957 from Bard College, where Louis Schanker and Stefan Hirsch were her main art professors. Throughout her long career she painted hundreds of canvases in a wide variety of genres: still lifes, abstractions, figures, self portraits, landscapes, studio interiors, and cityscapes. The majority of her work was oil paintings, but she did occasionally do watercolors or acrylics. Her sketchbooks were done in a wide variety of mediums, and reflected her life. The sketches were of Paris; New York City; Woodstock, New York; the street views outside her Upper West Side City studio; and Montana, where her husband went to fly fish.
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Schwerin, Ricarda, 1912-1999
Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), photographer and active communist, took a series of black and white photographs of Greek architecture, likely taken in 1963, while Schwerin was travelling with Hannah Arendt. She later gifted prints of these photographs to Arendt. The photographs probably came to Bard with Arendt’s library, which was gifted to Bard after her death in 1975.
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Bard College Archives
This collection consists of documents and artifacts created by the architectural firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in 1989-1993 for the design of a new addition and the renovation of the existing buildings for the Bard College Library. Named for the principal donor, the Bard College Board of Trustees Chair Emeritus Charles P. Stevenson Jr., the completed library complex opened as Stevenson library in 1994. Documents include architectural plans, maps, mechanical drawings, and other technical drawings, ephemera, and manuals. Artifacts include mounted drawings and one model.
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Weiss, Theodore Russell, 1916-2003
This collection consists of materials pertaining to the life of Theodore Russel Weiss and his activities as a poet, academic, critic, editor and publisher. Theodore Weiss was a professor at several institutions including Bard College and Princeton University as well as the co-founder and editor of acclaimed literary journal, the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL). He was also an award winning poet, over a dozen volumes of his poetry were published by the likes Macmillan, NYU Press and others. A significant portion of this collection consists of original drafts of poetry by Weiss. The collection also contains materials pertaining to his marriage to poet, musician and editor, Renée Karol including their correspondences and drafts of their co-written poetry. The two were prolific collaborators on the QRL which they ran together for nearly sixty years.