Roger Fry

Roger Fry was born in 1866 into a Quaker family, studied natural sciences at Cambridge before art history, and was appointed in 1906 curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, from which he was removed in 1910 after a dispute with the president of the board, J. P. Morgan. In 1913 he founded a decorative arts workshop with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. He painted all his life, but his reputation rests on his criticism and his teaching. He died in 1934, aged sixty-seven.

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• EssayVision and DesignRoger Fry · 1920Literature