Bloomsbury Group

The Group was an informal collective of intellectuals comprising artists, writers and critics who, from about 1907, met at the Bloomsbury homes of the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The Group included Duncan Grant, writers Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell and E. M. Forster philanthropist John Maynard Keynes and artist and writer Roger Fry. Fry, one of its key figures, introduced Post-Impressionist art into Britain with the exhibitions he organised at the Grafton Galleries in 1910 and 1912. Fry, together with Grant and Bell, experimented with the Post-Impressionists' use of colour, combining it with the decorative style of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and based on this approach, the three founded the Omega Workshops in 1913.