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Roger E. Fry (1866-1934), Artist

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Roger E. Fry

Date of birth: 1866

Date of death: 1934

Roles: Artist

Source of information: Special Collections

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Roger Fry studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge before turning to art in the late 1880s. He was Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a brief period before returning to London and a career as writer, critic and painter. His defence of Cezanne and Gauguin in 1908 in The Burlington Magazine, followed by the Post-Impressionist exhibitions, which he organized in London in 1910 and 1912, established his reputation as a proselytizer for modern (French) art, although his intellectual and aesthetic enthusiasms were broad, and his open-mindedness led him to constant reviews of his own critical position.