“Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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 | 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
. |
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, 1996. 371-3 |
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
... |
Occupation | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
joined Roger Fry
, D. S. MacColl
, and C. J. Holmes
in launching the Modern Art Association
, an initiative supporting artists in England. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 86-7 Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 73 |
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, 1994. 38 |
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, 2000. 1 |
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, Apr. 1998, pp. 32-45. 34 |
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 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, 1989. 169 |
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, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 6: 406n2 |
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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington |
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