Art and lives of the Bloomsbury Group

Join Frank Woodgate and Shoe Lane Library for a talk about the art of the three main 'Bloomsbury' artists (Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry)

This talk looks at the art of the three main ‘Bloomsbury’ artists (Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry) work and reviews the multi-faceted relationships between them and several others. In addition, it covers what many consider the most important contribution of the group to the visual arts in Britain, the so-called ‘Art-quake of 1910’, when Roger Fry, assisted by Vanessa’s husband, the art critic and writer, Clive Bell, mounted the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London.

This event will take place both in person and online via Zoom. For more information and to book tickets, please click Book Tickets. 

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