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Roger Fry
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English artist and art critic (1866-1934)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1866
- Died
- 1934
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Chinese Art, An Introduction Handbook to Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes & Minor Arts
- Chinese art,
- Reflections on British painting
- Art-history as an academic study
- Portraits by Roger Fry
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Key facts
- Born
- Roger Eliot Fry , ( 1866-12-14 ) 14 December 1866, St Pancras, London , England
- Died
- 9 September 1934 (1934-09-09) (aged 67), Hampstead , London, England
- Education
- Clifton College
- Alma mater
- King's College, Cambridge
- Occupations
- Artist and art critic
- Known for
- Member of the Bloomsbury Group
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roger
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Sibling
- Margery Fry
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- King's College
- Employer
- Slade School of Fine Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- art history
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Movement
- Bloomsbury Group
- Image
- Self Portrait Roger Fry.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Roger Fry
- date of birth
- 1866-00-00
- date of death
- 1934-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Roger Fry
- sponsor
- Lady Ottoline Morrell
- has works in the collection
- Amos Rex
- unmarried partner
- Nina Hamnett
- P12749
- Ria Baran
Sources (5)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Roger Fry, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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 an early figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and he 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.
Life
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