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Roger FryRoger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 - 9 September 1934) was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Born in London, he studied at 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 and eventually he specialised in landscape painting. In 1910, he organised an exhibition for the Post-Impressionists, the first in London. It was patronised by Lady Ottoline Morrell, with whom Fry had a fleeting romantic attachment. In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops, a design workshop whose members included Vanessa Bell and her lover, Duncan Grant. Works References - Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry: a biography (1940) ISBN 015678520X
- Frances Spalding, Roger Fry, art and life (1980) ISBN 0520041267
External links Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Fry, Roger
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