Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute

June 19, 2010 – September 19, 2010
In this exhibition the Frye Art Museum honors one of the most influential directors in its history: Ida Kay Greathouse, who turns 105 this year.

Northern Latitudes: The Frye and Alaska

June 19, 2010 – September 19, 2010
Northern Latitudes: The Frye and Alaska presents paintings by artists who experimented with representations of light and land in their depictions of America’s forty-ninth state.

Tête-à-tête

February 6, 2010 – January 15, 2012
Tête-à-tête features one hundred fifty paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection, recreating the sumptuous viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to the art gallery in Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle home in the first decades of the twentieth century.

On Arctic Ice: Fred Machetanz

June 12, 2010 – September 6, 2010
Working in the isolated wilderness, Fred Machetanz produced a body of work that encapsulates the snowcapped mountains and brilliant light of Alaska.

Frye-Bruhn and Alaska

June 12, 2010 – September 6, 2010
In conjunction with the exhibitions Northern Latitudes and On Arctic Ice, the Frye presents historical photographs documenting the entrepreneurial activities of the Museum’s founder, Charles Frye, in Seattle and Alaska.

A Day in Skaguay

June 12, 2010 – September 6, 2010
A Day in Skaguay was filmed by Burton Holmes (1870–1958), an American traveler, photographer, and filmmaker, who in 1904 coined the term travelogue to advertise travel lectures with projections of hand-painted glass-lantern slides and early films.