Roger Fry

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Standard Name: Fry, Roger
Birth Name: Roger Eliot Fry
RF was an art critic and art historian who during the earlier part of the twentieth century was deeply influential in turning British art towards modernism.

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Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
Friends, Associates Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Daryush
Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry , ED as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats , Ezra Pound , Henry Newbolt , Mary Coleridge
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Feeling his loss profoundly, VW attended Roger Fry 's funeral.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
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Friends, Associates Nina Hamnett
Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Bussy
La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa and Clive Bell , Virginia and Leonard Woolf , John Maynard Keynes and...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...
Friends, Associates Nina Hamnett
She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry at Guildford (where Lady Strachey led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes
Friends, Associates Mary Butts
During this time MB became acquainted with Wyndham Lewis and Ford Madox Ford as well as Hamnett and Fry . She was a good friend of the strong feminist Wilma Meikle .
Blondel, Nathalie, and Nathalie Blondel. “Foreword”. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life: A Biography, McPherson, 1998, p. xv - xix.
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“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Instructor Dora Carrington
Roger Fry was a visiting lecturer in the History of Art the year that Carrington began at the Slade: this was 1910, the same year he curated the explosive Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at...
Leisure and Society Iris Tree
IT was a natural bohemian. She smoked, and was one of the first girls to bob her hair (in 1913, cutting off her long plait on a train and leaving it behind on the seat)...
Leisure and Society Leonora Carrington
As she had in Paris, LC produced new writing and visual art. She and Ernst also decorated walls, cupboard doors, and other spaces with paintings, carvings, and sculptures that produced a singular aesthetic for their...
Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas of King's College . Lucas argued that QDL 's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's...
Occupation Wyndham Lewis
WL was an avant-garde painter and writer. His paintings were shown in the second Post-Impressionist exhibit, held in London in 1912, and for a time he worked with Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops ...

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