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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.
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Mar 15, 1976 · This biography is written by one of the best writers of the 20th century and concerns one of the most influential art critics of visual art. Roger Fry loved traditional Italian art and was converted through a very gradual and natural process to become an advocate for modern art.
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Although the reference is jesting, in a May 1927 letter Woolf alludes to writing Fry’s memoirs: Fry has become so popular with the Oxford set, she writes, “they’ll be making a Christ of you within a century” and so “It[’]s time I set about the Fry memoir which I have it in my mind (as you Quakers say) to do before I die.” Shortly after Fry’s death,...
If the reader can forgive Woolf’s elision of Fry’s personal faults, it is more difficult to forgive her elision of his paintings. Though he made his living and his reputation as a art lecturer and critic, Fry considered painting his primary vocation. Nonetheless, Fry’s paintings never achieved widespread influence and rarely moved beyond the stylis...
The initial reception of Roger Fry praised its accuracy as a portrait. The Times Literary Supplement observes that it is “less concerned with Fry the art critic and painter and more concerned with his life and character,” in which regard “The account of the tragedy of Fry’s life, the mental aberration of his wife, is all the more moving for its res...
Nov 4, 2011 · Roger Fry : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1976. Topics. Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934. Publisher. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Dec 6, 2017 · ROGER FRY: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. e-artnow, Dec 6, 2017 - Biography & Autobiography - 595 pages. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and...
Roger Fry: A Biography. Virginia Woolf. 3.74. 134 ratings21 reviews. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.
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Feb 2, 2019 · Roger Fry : a biography. by. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Publication date. 1940. Topics. Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934. Publisher. London : Hogarth Press.
