Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866 - 1934 (painter and art critic)
Dates and places
1866-1934 KCC 1885
Legal status / Nationality
British
Sphere of activity
Painter, Art Critic Curator, New York Metropolitan Museum, 1909-1910 Slade Professor of Art 1933
Relationships
Married Helen Coombe, 1897; two children, Pamela and Julian.
Other information
From 1926 lived with Helen Anrep.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted comic entertainments and verses concerning members of the 'Bloomsbury Group' and Keynes family, 1925 - 1928
This file includes 'Don't be frightened: a burlesque' [possibly in the hand of Molly MacCarthy], featuring characters called Vanessa, Roger, Bell and Grant.
'Bloomsbury burlesque'
A photocopied typescript (incomplete) of a play featuring characters called Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant.
Correspondence from Roger Fry to J.M. Keynes, 1914 - 1929
4 autograph letters, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed. The most recent piece of correspondence was dated 1919 by Roger Fry, but refers to Julian Bell as a student at King's College, so is probably 1929.
Fry, Roger: Correspondence with the Press, 1934 - 1939
Includes reports by Anrep, H. and Clark, Kenneth M.
Fry: The Papers of Roger Eliot Fry
The collection includes lectures, correspondence, sketchbooks etc. accumulated by Fry during his lifetime. It also contains secondary material comprising correspondence, photocopies, notes and news cuttings assembled since Fry's death by his sister Margery, daughter Pamela Diamand, biographer Virginia Woolf, bibliographer Donald Laing and editor Denys Sutton.
'Good and All That. An essay on a provisional theory of ethics', 1934
Carbon typescript, including typescript version of part of Chapter I with Julian Bell's annotations; autograph manuscript notes; a typescript report by Prof. R.E. Fry and Prof. C.D. Broad with a manuscript note by John Maynard Keynes, 14 Apr. 1934; 1 typed letter, signed, from Sir Edward ('Eddie') Playfair to Julian Bell with typescript comments on the dissertation, 16 Nov. 1934; and manuscript comments on the dissertation in an unidentified hand.
Letter from Roger Fry to Julian Bell, 1933-12-30
1 autograph letter, signed.
Letters from Roger Fry, 1920 - 1923
5 autograph letters, signed.
Letters from Roger Fry to JTS, 1930 - 1934
6 autograph letters signed.
Letters from Roger Fry to Lydia Lopokova Keynes, 1918-12-19 - 1921-01-02
2 autograph letters, signed.
Letters from Roger Fry to Nathaniel Wedd, 1889-08-02 - 1925-02-10
14 autograph letters, signed to NW. 2 Aug. 1889 - 10 Feb. 1925. Mention the Ark [of the Cambridge Apostles] and the Widdrington women.
Includes:
1 autograph letter signed with an introduction of Nathaniel Wedd to Col. Elliot enclosed with letter of 2 Sept. 1920.
Letters from various authors to Hugh Owen Meredith, 1903-10-03 - 1987
Letters to Rupert Brooke from a variety of correspondents, 1909 - 1914
Speculations on behalf of Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and the Bells, 1914 - 1920
Ledger of stock exchange speculations made by J.M. Keynes with a loan from R.E. Fry, with details of transactions made on behalf of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and a letter from Clive Bell asking for financial advice, June 1918; with related correspondence, 1914-20.
Unidentified group, including Goldsworthy Lowes-Dickinson and Roger Fry, 1885 - 1932
Photographs of groups of students
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- Type
- Archival Object 14
- Collection 1
- Subject
- letter 5