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5 unusual facts about Roger Fry


An Outline of Modern Knowledge

Editor William Rose solicited leading authorities of the time, including Roger Fry, C. G. Seligman, Maurice Dobb, F. J. C. Hearnshaw, G. D. H. Cole, J. C. Flügel, R. R. Marett, and J. W. N. Sullivan among others, to contribute informative essays written for the common reader.

Augustus Daniel

As a young man, Daniel travelled abroad studying the attribution of paintings with Roger Fry.

H. A. Gade

Gade had an interest in science and mathematics and he read several works by Roger Fry on painting techniques and aesthetics.

Roger Fry

In 1903 Fry was involved in the foundation of The Burlington Magazine, the first scholarly periodical dedicated to art history in Britain.

Roger Fry: A Biography

Roger Fry: A Biography is a biography of Roger Fry written by Virginia Woolf.


Ernest Gambier-Parry

The visitors included Professor Charles John Holmes, director of the National Gallery; Sir Claude Phillips, curator of the Wallace Collection; Roger Eliot Fry; Bernard Berenson; Dr. Raymond van Marle, author of The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, William George Constable of the National Gallery, and historian Welbore St. Clair Baddeley.

Ethel Sands

Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and Arnold Bennett were among the writers of the "cultural elite" who visited her.


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