Roger Fry
(1866-1934), Critic and painterSitter in 18 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, Fry wrote for the Burlington Magazine, which he helped found, and was European adviser to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 1910. He was linked to the Bloomsbury Group from 1910, both as a painter and a writer. A champion of Cézanne and the Post-Impressionists, the exhibitions he organised in 1910 and 1912-3 established him as the movement's leading advocate. He was a leading figure among the avant-garde and in 1913 founded the Omega Workshops, an experimental decorative art venture. Fry published many of his most important articles in Vision and Design (1920) and produced eight books in his last decade, notably Transformations (1927) and Cézanne (1928).
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by Vanessa Bell
oil on panel, 1912
On display at Tate Britain, London
NPG 6684
by Marcel Gimond
bronze head, circa 1920
NPG 5402
by Roger Fry
oil on canvas, 1930-1934
NPG 3833
by Sir Max Beerbohm
pen and watercolour, 1931
NPG 3858
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(9)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(10)
by Alice Boughton
platinum print, circa 1900
NPG x9186
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 27 February 1913
NPG Ax7798
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915
NPG Ax160972
Roger Fry; Clive Bell; Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, circa 1916
NPG Ax160974
by Augustus Charles Cooper
sepia-toned vintage print, 28 February 1918
NPG x13109
by Lenare
bromide print on card mount, 1920s
NPG x14279
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1930
NPG x14280
by Ray Strachey
oil on cardboard, late 1920s or early 1930s
NPG D215
by Cicely Mary Hey
pen and ink, 1933 or before
NPG D34004
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