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May 25, 2010
Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed, eds. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections Exh. cat. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2008. 272 pp.; 301 ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781934260050)

Exhibition schedule: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, December 18, 2008–April 5, 2009; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 18–October 18, 2009; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, November 7–December 13, 2009; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, January 15–March 14, 2010; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, April 3–June 15, 2010; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, July 6–September 26, 2010

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.53

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Vanessa Bell. Still Life of Flowers in Jug (1948–50). Oil on canvas. Collection of Bannon and Barnabas McHenry © Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photograph by Julie Magura, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

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The visual artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group are not so well known in the United States. The explanations for this are varied, but essentially boil down to the fact that few of them ever achieved fame here for their art. Roger Fry was best known for the pioneering art criticism he wrote in the early days of modernism; Vanessa Bell is most often portrayed as the artist sister of Virginia Woolf; Dora Carrington and...