Quote of the day
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Roger Fry
Born: December 14, 1866
Died: September 9, 1934 (aged 67)
Bio: Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Known for:
- Vision and design (1920)
- A Roger Fry reader
- Cézanne, a study of his development (1927)
- Last lectures
- French, Flemish, and British art
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