EXHIBITION Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group

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“On or about December 1910, human character changed.” Here, Virginia Woolf, with characteristic humor, refers to the pivotal moment when artist and critic Roger Fry staggered London with his two Post-Impressionist exhibitions, marking the international development of modernism. Painters, novelists, and critics associated with Fry pioneered a distinctive visual style and a shift in cultural and societal attitudes; they were known as The Bloomsbury Group. At its core, Bloomsbury was a conversation—an artistic and intellectual dialogue that blurred the boundaries between painting and literature, criticism and creation. The Rollins Museum of Art holds an extensive collection of works by members of this collective, including Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, and Walter Richard Sickert. RMA debuts a recently acquired portrait of Vanessa Bell by Roger Fry with this exhibition, which foregrounds the group’s dynamic dialogue with European modernism and one another.