Roger Fry
1866–1934
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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.
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Roger Fry Essay in Abstract Design
1914 or 1915
Roger Fry River with Poplars
c.1912
Roger Fry Still Life: Flowers
c.1912
Roger Fry A Staircase / Narbonne
1930
Roger Fry Landscape with Shepherd, near Villa Madama, Rome
1891
Roger Fry Still Life with T’ang Horse
c.1919–21
Roger Fry Rock-cut Church, Aubeterre
1930
Roger Fry Rock-cut Church, Saint Emilion
1930
Artist as subject
William Roberts No! No! Cézanne never used it
c.1934
Sir Max Beerbohm Annual Banquet: A Suggestion to the New English Art Club
1913
Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands, addressed London County Council, Westminster Technical Institute
[c.December 1915]
Walter Richard Sickert, recipient: Ethel Sands Letter from Walter Sickert to Ethel Sands
[1915]
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.25 December 1925]
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1916]
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1918]
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[1 March 1916]
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1917]
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