Famous as critic and scholar, Fry also painted and joined the Bloomsbury Group. He is best known for his portraits. This still life conveys his continued delight in painting.
This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
Open Access
As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.
API
Public domain data for this object can also be accessed using the Met's Open Access API.
Credit Line:Gift of Bannon and Barnabas McHenry, 2018
Object Number:2018.886.4
Inscription: Signed and inscribed (reverse): The Mantlepiece / Roger Fry
[Anthony d'Offay, London, until 1987; sold in 1987 to McHenry]; Bannon and Barnabas McHenry, New York (1987–2018; their gift to MMA)
Durham, N.C. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," December 18, 2008–April 5, 2009, no. 55 (lent by Bannon and Barnabas McHenry).
Ithaca, N. Y. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," July 18–October 18, 2009, no. 55.
Oakland, Calif. Mills College Art Museum. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," November 7–December 13, 2009, no. 55.
Evanston, Ill. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," January 15–March 14, 2010, no. 55.
Northampton, Mass. Smith College Museum of Art. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," April 3–June 15, 2010, no. 55.
University Park. Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University. "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections," July 6–September 26, 2010, no. 55.
Richard Shone. The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1999, p. 133, fig. 97 (color), calls it "Paper Flowers on the Mantelpiece," dates it about 1919, and lists it as present whereabouts unknown.
Alison Syme. "Omega Flowers and Bloomsbury Modernism." West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 29 (Fall–Winter 2022), pp. 220, 230 nn. 134–35, fig. 17 (color).
Roger Eliot Fry (British, Highgate, Middlesex 1866–1934 London)
1906
Resources for Research
The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars.
The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can connect to the most up-to-date data and public domain images for The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.
The Met's engagement with art from 1890 to today includes the acquisition and exhibition of works in a range of media, spanning movements in modernism to contemporary practices from across the globe.