FRY, ROGER ELLIOT (1866-1934), British painter and art critic, son of Sir Edward Fry, was born in London, and edu cated at Clifton and King's College, Cambridge. He studied paint ing under Francis Bate and then in Paris, and exhibited at the Carfax Gallery, London, in 1903. His work, notably in his land scapes, is marked by deep feeling for form and a scholarly sense of design and technical means. An active member and exhibitor of the London Group, he gave an exhibition of his own paintings in 1920. As a critic, with his wide knowledge and acute sensibil ity, Fry became a recognized authority in England and abroad. He published a study of Bellini (1899) and edited Reynolds' Dis courses (19o5), but is best known by his championship through much opposition and prejudice, of Cezanne and the post-impres sionists. His Cezanne (192 7) is a study of the master. Among other publications are Vision and Design (1920) ; Architectural Heresies of a Painter (1921), a book of travel impressions ; A Sampler of Castile (1023), and Transformations (1926). In 1933 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge.