Resumen de 'A More and More Important Work': Roger Fry and The Burlington Magazine'
The relationship between Roger Fry (Fig.3) and the British art establishment was an extremely complex one. In 1911, having just turned down the directorship of the Tate Gallery, he wrote to his mother: 'So I must give up the idea of official life and titles and honours, which I very willingly do ... I once wanted those things but I now feel quite indifferent to them." Although he was much involved with founding and advising - even interfering with - institutions, he was not by nature an institutional figure, and he disliked committees. But there was one institution with which Fry's association could hardly have been closer or more enduring, and that was The Burlington Magazine. He was intimately concerned with the plans for the new journal in 1902, he was a hyper-active member of its Consultative Committee from the first issue in March 1903 until his death, he was co-editor from 1909 to 1919, and he almost single-handedly saved the Magazine from financial ruin in 1903-06.3 On 6th March 1911 he again wrote to his mother of the Burlington: 'although it pays me very little it is getting to be a more and more important work and one that I have much at heart.'
