Roger Fry - Bernard Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.392 W 000° 07.496
30U E 699446 N 5711928
This Marchmont Association blue plaque indicates that the artists, Roger Fry, "lived and died at 48 Bernard Street". The plaque is attached to a building on the north west side of Bernard Street at the junction with Herbrand Street.
Waymark Code: WMV5J4
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/27/2017
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The wording on the Marchmont Association blue plaque reads:
Marchmont Association
Roger
Fry
1866 - 1934
Artist and art critic
lived and died at
48 Bernard Street
on this site
1926 - 1934
Morton Hotel
Wikipedia has an article about Roger Fry that tells us:
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.