Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
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1866 London, England - 1934 London, England. Known for: Painting.
Roger Fry was born in London in 1866. He earned a degree in science at King's College, Cambridge and then studied art in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1892. He devoted much of his... Read full biography
Roger Fry was born in London in 1866. He earned a degree in science at King's College, Cambridge and then studied art in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1892. He devoted much of his energy to criticism and it is as a critic that he is chiefly remembered. He was hampered by a stodgy... Read full biography
Roger Fry was born in London in 1866. He earned a degree in science at King's College, Cambridge and then studied art in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1892. He devoted much of his energy to criticism and it is as a critic that he is chiefly remembered. He was hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing and burdened with a great personal tragedy, which was the insanity of his wife. He was not a successful painter, and he had a hard time learning how to write and lecture... Read full biography
Roger Fry was born in London in 1866. He earned a degree in science at King's College, Cambridge and then studied art in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1892. He devoted much of his energy to criticism and it is as a critic that he is chiefly remembered. He was hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing and burdened with a great personal tragedy, which was the insanity of his wife. He was not a successful painter, and he had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. He was a curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for five years and then returned to London. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery, he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art... Read full biography
Roger Fry was born in London in 1866. He earned a degree in science at King's College, Cambridge and then studied art in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1892. He devoted much of his energy to criticism and it is as a critic that he is chiefly remembered. He was hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing and burdened with a great personal tragedy, which was the insanity of his wife. He was not a successful painter, and he had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. He was a curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for five years and then returned to London. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery, he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Fry made more Britons look at pictures and like them than any other man of his time. The term... Read full biography
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