Omega Workshops

NH recounts how, feeling brave one morning, she entered the post-impressionist Omega Workshops , and asked to see Mr. [Roger] Fry. This charming man with grey hair told her, on her request for work...

Virginia and Vanessa (1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW recalls that after the death of their...

The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes

IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...

Carrington produced decorative arts for the Omega Workshops (which Fry also started) in 1913. He asked for her help with restorations on Mantegna 's The Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court Palace in 1917.

At 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, London, founder RF opened the Omega Workshops , an artists' group whose participants included Wyndham Lewis , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (both co-directors), and Dora Carrington .

An Omega still-life show exemplified the greater recognition NH received this year for her art. She exhibited widely, showing drawings, still lifes and portraits with the Friday Club , the London Group and the New English Art Club

Back in London, NH did modelling to survive, as well as painting. She also resumed work at the Omega Workshops , and Roger Fry agreed to employ her husband as well.

WL was an avant-garde painter and writer. His paintings were shown in the second Post-Impressionist exhibit, held in London in 1912, and for a time he worked with Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops ...

DC was among the founders of the Omega Club , an offshoot of Roger Fry 's Omega Workshops .

This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells, was reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999 as its opening title in a cover featuring an Omega Workshops fabric...

Carrington cut (and most likely designed) the title page and first letter of the Omega Workshops ' third publication, Lucretius on Death.

In March 1917, when Carrington designed the chorus costumes for a benefit for the Lena Ashwell Concerts for the Troops , she had them made at the Workshops as well. But because of...

Eminent painter and critic Roger Fry , who founded the Workshops in 1913, also employed Carrington in 1917 in the restoration of Mantegna 's The Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court Palace.