Roger Fry (1866-1934), Critic and painter

Sitter associated with 17 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, Fry wrote articles for the Burlington Magazine which he helped find, and until 1910 acted as European adviser to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1910 he was closely linked with Bloomsbury. Following the two Post-Impressionism exhibitions he organised in 1910 and 1912-13 he was a leading figure among the avant-garde. In 1913, he founded the Omega workshops, which applied new principles of mass, line, form and colour to the production of furniture, fabrics and jewellery. Active as a painter, he also continued to write, producing eight books in the last ten years of his life, notably Transformations (1927) and Cézanne (1928).