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Description: | Roger Fry (1866-1934). Formerly Curator of Old Master Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Fry was a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group, an enthusiastic and influential critic and a key promoter of ÃmodernÃ' art in Britain.
An early supporter of Lord LeeÃ's initiative in founding the Courtauld Institute, Fry bequeathed his collection to the Institute in 1934. It included examples of his own paintings, important designs by artists associated with his Omega Workshops, and objects such as an African dancing mask from Ulvira, Lake Tanganyika, to which he accorded equal status with great European works of art. Among the works on display are FryÃ's 1917 portrait of the artist Nina Hamnett, known as the ÃQueen of BohemiaÃ', and works by members of the Bloomsbury Group such as Vanessa BellÃ's A Conversation and Duncan GrantÃ's Portrait of Ka Cox. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Somerset House
Strand
London Great Britain (UK),
WC2R 0RN | FAX: | 020 7848 2589 | Telephone: | 020 7848 2526 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5355 | Go to resource |
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