“In so far as taste can be said to have been changed by one man,
it was changed by Roger Fry.”– Kenneth Clark
Artist, art historian, critic, writer and tastemaker, Roger Fry was one of Britain’s most influential figures in twentieth-century art. He co-founded The Burlington Magazine, served as Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and, most notably, reshaped British taste with his two landmark exhibitions at the Grafton Galleries: Manet and the Post-Impressionists in 1910 and The Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912.
Although he is best known as a curator, critic, and writer, Fry considered himself first and foremost an artist and we have had the pleasure in recent years of handling a number of exceptional works by him, some of which are on loan at Charleston, where Fry's first major exhibition in 25 years has just opened.
