365 Days of Art: December 14 – Roger Fry is Born

Roger Fry, by Roger Fry, 1930-1934

December 14, 1866

Roger Fry, British artist and art critic, is born.

He holds many roles in his lifetime, including writer, painter, member of London’s Bloomsbury group, expert on Italian Old Master paintings, inventor of the term “post-Impressionists”, and Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.