Word: durand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for these climbs, eight mountaineers, under the direction of Dana B. Durand '25 and John C. Gray '30, clambered over the crags at the tip of Nahant last Sunday, and tackled the offshore pinnacle from several directions...
...workout, the Mountaineering Club yesterday resorted to climbing down instead of up. About ten members, equipped with all the paraphernalia necessary for slab climbing, went down to the Quincy granite quarries to shake off the boredom of inactivity and receive instruction from Edward C. Streeter '36 and Dana B. Durand...
...other years for other causes, Durand-Ruel et Cie last week fetched up from their cellars and borrowed from old customers nearly 30 canvases, to make the most important showing of the work of the late great Auguste Renoir that Manhattan has seen in many years...
...Durand-Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...
...engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck...