Roger Fry

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Roger Fry was an influential English art critic and painter who played a key role in introducing and promoting Post-Impressionism in Britain.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art critic
art historian
curator
essayist
human
painter
birthName Roger Eliot Fry
causeOfDeath fall
child Julian Fry
Pamela Fry
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1866-12-14
dateOfDeath 1934-09-09
educatedAt King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Metropolitan Museum of Art
Slade School of Fine Art
ethnicGroup English
familyName Fry
fieldOfWork art criticism
art history
painting
founded Omega Workshops
genre art criticism
givenName Roger
influenced Bloomsbury Group
Clive Bell
influencedBy French Post-Impressionists
Paul Cézanne
knownFor influencing the Bloomsbury Group's artistic taste
introducing Post-Impressionism to the British public
organizing the 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition in London
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Bloomsbury Group
movement Modernism
Post-Impressionism
name Roger Fry
notableWork Cézanne: A Study of His Development
Transformations
Vision and Design
occupation art critic
art historian
curator
lecturer
painter
writer
placeOfBirth London
placeOfDeath London
positionHeld Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
co-director of the Omega Workshops
lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art
sexOrGender male
spouse Helen Coombe


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