Roger Fry

Fiona McKenzie Johnston has an MA in History of Art from the University of St Andrew’s, and has long written on art and interiors for newspapers and magazines including The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Vogue, AD and House & Garden.Fiona lives with her husband and two children on the East Sussex coast, twenty miles from Charleston – the house that, from the First World War onwards, was the Bloomsbury Group’s rural outpost.

‘In this elegant pen portrait, McKenzie Johnston brings to Fry’s story her characteristic eye for interiors, taste and lives devoted to making and living with art. An inspiring call to artistic arms.’ LAURA FREEMAN - CHIEF ART CRITIC, THE TIMES‘McKenzie Johnston brings Fry vividly to life, capturing the passion, turmoil and brilliance that reshaped British art forever.’ PHILIP MOULD, OBE - ART DEALER, WRITER AND BROADCASTER‘Roger Fry is one of the most important figures in twentieth century art and culture. McKenzie Johnston’s fresh and engaging new biography is essential for anyone interested in the Bloomsbury group and British modernism.’ NATHANIEL HEPBURN - DIRECTOR, CHARLESTON‘Fry was a genuine provoker, a creative force who shocked and thrilled the British public with his probing mind and relentless, joyful and radical vision.’ LUKE EDWARD HALL - ARTIST AND DESIGNER‘McKenzie Johnston has achieved the near impossible, to capture the full and diverse life of a polymath like Fry with captivating clarity. A very welcome addition to the Bloomsbury library.’ DARREN PRICE - HEAD OF COLLECTIONS, CHARLESTON‘To many, not least his friends and admirers in Bloomsbury and beyond, Fry was Modern Art come to life. McKenzie Johnston combines scholarship and seriousness about the art, but always with an ear and an eye for revealing details. A significant, mercurial figure finds the author he deserves.’ ROBIN MUIR - CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, VOGUE

• Introduction; The Education of an Artist; The Making of an Old Master Expert; America and the Metropolitan Museum; Art-Quake; Interior Innovations and the Omega Workshops; Work and War; A Return to Order; The Future; Acknowledgements; Cast; London Art Groups; Endnotes; Further Reading; Picture Credits; Index