Roger Fry, Boats in a Harbour (St-Tropez), 1915Roger Fry was a painter, art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group. He advanced modern art in Britain due to his interest in French Post Impressionist painting. The vibrant colours in this work are typical of other expressive European painters of this period such as Paul Gauguin and Andr Derain. This work was gifted to the collection by Alfred Alexander Haley, a wealthy West Yorkshire mill owner. Haley was one of the first major donors to the