Person    | Male  Born 14/12/1866  Died 9/9/1934

Roger Fry

Categories: Art

Artist, art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Born Roger Eliot Fry at 6, The Grove, Highgate. 8 years later the family moved next door into number 5. Primarily a landscape painter, he championed modern artists, particularly Cézanne. He founded the Omega Workshops in association with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant to design textiles, pottery and furniture. Died at The Royal Free Hospital, following a fall at his flat in Bernard Street.

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Roger Fry

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Roger Fry - W1

Historian Sir David Cannadine, and Frances Spalding, Fry's biographer, were p...

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Roger Fry - WC1

Morton Hotel is part of Imperial London Hotels Ltd who own the building.

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