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.

Connections

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Friends, Associates Dorothy Wellesley
In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners .
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952.
133
In the years after the war she formed her important...
Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
Xu Zhimo was one of several Crescent Moon members who played a vital role in LS's creative life. He and LS collaborated, for instance, on producing the literary supplement for the Morning Post newspaper (where...
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
Gretchen Gerzina notes that Roger Fry does not mention Carrington in his art criticism.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
142
Feeling more affinity with Chelsea's art scene than Bloomsbury's, Carrington suspected in 1927 that Fry thought her decorative...
Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
Margery Fry met LS in 1933 on a tour of China, which she undertook as a member of the Universities China Mission endowed by China after the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against the presence of...
Friends, Associates Iris Tree
IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...
Friends, Associates Gertrude Stein
It was John Lane and Roger Fry who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...
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.
167
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 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...

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