Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry   Biographical Summary Date of Birth 14 December 1866 Place of Birth London Date of Death 9 September 1934 Place of Death London Monument     Vocation & Acclamations Artist Art Critic Founder of the Omega Workshop Organiser of London Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1910 Curator of Department of Paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America 1906-1909 Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University 1933

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Biographical Details and Notes

• Organised the first Post-Impressionist exhibition in 1910

• Co-founded the Omega Workshop which operated from 1913-1921

• Died of complications following a fall in his London flat in which he broke his pelvis.

• Studied painting at the Academie Julian in Paris 1882

• A member of the Bloomsbury Group