Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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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