Fry, Roger Eliot 1866-1934
English artist and art critic

He was born in London and was educated at Cambridge. A landscape painter himself, he became a champion of modern artists, particularly C�zanne, and organized the first London exhibition of Post-Impressionists in 1910. He wrote extensively on art and aesthetics, propounding a theory of 'significant form' and colour, rather than content, as the only criteria for great art. He founded the Omega Workshops in London (1913-21), in association with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and others of the Bloomsbury Group, to design textiles, pottery and furniture. His writings include Vision and Design (1920), Transformations (1926), C�zanne (1927), Henri Matisse (1930), French Art (1932) and Reflections on British Painting (1934).