Roger Fry
Nationality: British
Born: 1886-12-14, London
Died: 1934-09-09

Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 - 9 September 1934) was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group.

Born in London, he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. After taking a first in the Natural Science 'tripos', he went to Paris and then Italy to study art and eventually he specialized in landscape painting. In 1910, he organized an exhibition for the Post-Impressionists, the first in London. It was patronized by Lady Ottoline Morrell, with whom Fry had a fleeting romantic attachment. In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops, a design workshop whose members included Vanessa Bell and her lover, Duncan Grant. He was later made The Slade Professor of Arts at Cambridge, a position Fry had much desired.

Source: "Roger Eliot Fry" Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. December 11, 2005. http://www.wikipedia.org.