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 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 Post-Impressionism, for the art of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, et al., was his invention and through jibes and jeers he introduced Cezanne to London in 1906.
He died in 1934.
Compiled and submitted August 2004 by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California
Sources include:
"Time Magazine"
"Art & Antiques", January 1995 |
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