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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 the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and 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”.
Life
Born in London, the son of the judge Edward Fry, he grew up in a wealthy Quaker family in Highgate. Fry was educated at Clifton College and King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. After taking a first in the Natural Science tripos, he went to Paris and then Italy to study art. Eventually he specialised in landscape painting.
In 1896, he married the artist…
First Night Design 
Superb post and I love the portrait of Fry….Enjoy the day and keep smiling:)x
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Thanks, Janet! xx
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I had seen the blue plaque in Fitzroy Square as I walked home from work, but knew little about the man. Most educational, and interesting too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m happy you found it interesting, Pete.
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I was very happy to see this post. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about Roger Fry, and I feel like no one ever talks about him or even knows who he was.
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That’s great! Thank you for commenting.
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Always interested in the artists of the group. Thanks, Sarah!
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Pleasure, Olga.
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