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Roger Eliot Fry ( 14 December 1866 - 9 September 1934 ) was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group . EARLY LIFE, CAREER AND RELATIONSHIPS Born in London , the son of the judge Edward Fry , he studied at King's College, Cambridge , where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles . After taking a first in the Natural Science tripos, he went to Paris and then Italy to study art and eventually he specialised in Landscape painting. In 1910 , he organised an exhibition for the Post-Impressionist s, the first in London. It was patronised by Lady Ottoline Morrell , with whom Fry had a fleeting romantic attachment. In 1913 he founded the Omega Workshops , a design workshop whose members included Vanessa Bell and her lover, Duncan Grant , with both of whom (Fry was Bisexual ) he was involved in sexual affairs. He was later made the Slade Professor Of Fine Art at Cambridge , a position Fry had much desired. WORKS
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