Fry, Roger

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Roger Fry (1866-1934) was an English art historian, critic, curator, and painter who was one of the major populist tastemakers of the early modernist movement in art. Coining the phrase "post-impressionism" to describe the new phase of form-centered art evolving from Cezanne, Fry brought widespread acceptance to the radical changes that were happening in the European art world. In 1903, Fry helped found the The Burlington Magazine, which is now the longest running art journal in the English language, and contributed over 200 articles to its pages in his lifetime. In 1906 Fry served as curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a year which featured his "discovery" of Cezanne and his "turn" toward modernist concerns. In 1910 Fry organized a London exhibit titled Manet and the Post-Impressionists, which also featured for the first time Van Gogh, Matisse, and Gaugin in a concentrated setting. The overwhelming success of this exhibit paved the way for the general adoption of this new art consciousness. Fry was also a part of the influential Bloomsbury Group and Virginia Woolf became his first biographer.
Though his link to Stevens is only one of providing acceptance and critical apparatus for his modernist concerns, we might conclude that Fry's influence may have shaped Stevens' taste in art, thus providing some of the intellectual background from which Stevens drew his poetic methods.