Fry, Roger (Eliot) (1866-1934)

English artist and art critic. An admirer of the French painter Paul Cézanne, he coined the term and championed post-Impressionism in Britain, expounding the theory of ‘significant form’ and colour as the criteria for true art. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and founded the Omega Workshops to improve design and to encourage young artists. His critical essays, which were very influential in the 1920s and 1930s, are contained in Vision and Design (1920).

From 1905 to 1910 he was director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. His works include Giovanni Bellini (1899), Transformations (1926), Flemish Art (1926), and Reflections on British Art (1934).