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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Occupation Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM joined a small committee assisting Roger Fry with the launching of the landmark exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists, held from November 1910 at the Grafton Galleries.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Occupation Virginia Woolf
The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Its political interests were served by enlightened...
Occupation Nina Hamnett
NH recounts how, feeling brave one morning, she entered the post-impressionist Omega Workshops , and asked to see Mr. [Roger] Fry. This charming man with grey hair told her, on her request for work...
Occupation Mary Butts
She also sat as a model for various artists (her flaming red hair was an asset in this role), including Nina Hamnett and Roger Fry .
“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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 ...
politics Dora Carrington
DC was among the founders of the Omega Club , an offshoot of Roger Fry 's Omega Workshops .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Publishing James Joyce
In London, Harriet Shaw Weaver wanted to publish the last episodes of the novel in The Egoist but could not find a printer willing to set the text. Roger Fry suggested that Leonard and...
Reception Jane Ellen Harrison
The lecture series was launched by distinguished supporters including J. G. Frazer , Sir Arthur Evans , Roger Fry , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press.
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Textual Features Evelyn Waugh
The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...
Textual Features Mary Butts
In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey ,
Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol.
5
, No. 2, pp. 32-45.
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but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Eminent painter and critic Roger Fry , who founded the Workshops in 1913, also employed Carrington in 1917 in the restoration of Mantegna 's The Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court Palace.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen grew up with the first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography, and her interest in life-writing dates from her very early years. Though she saw almost insuperable difficulties in biography, about...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Helen Anrep , with whom Roger Fry had lived from 1926 until his death in September 1934, tentatively asked VW to write a biography of him.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW published her biography Roger Fry with the Hogarth Press .
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Dora Carrington
Selected by Roger Fry , Carrington 's Tulips was shown at the Grosvenor Galleries ' Nameless Exhibition of Modern British Painting.
At this exhibition, Henry Tonks (who had supervised both Carrington and Vanessa Bell

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