Recent Acquisitions

The Frye Art Museum continues to strategically build its collection through purchases and gifts, both deepening existing areas of strength and diversifying holdings to reflect the museum’s expansive curatorial program and Seattle’s globalized present.

Acquisitions of the last five years demonstrate the Museum’s commitment to growing and contextualizing its distinctive historical collections of late nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American art while broadening its holdings of contemporary works to embrace previously underrepresented identities, perspectives, and forms of expression. To some extent, acquisitions mirror the Museum’s exhibition history, creating a material record of the institution’s engagement with local, national, and international artists and commemorating the special audience connection formed through temporary presentations. Contemporary artworks chosen for the collection often respond to or complicate the narratives around mediums and genres traditionally associated with the Frye, like painting, landscape, and portraiture.

Gingko bilobaGretchen Frances Bennett2023
FryeTracy and the Plastics2006-2014
Sister TotemMarita Dingus2023
Solid CitizenJessica Jackson Hutchins2008
Study for 2x4 with yellow fillMargie Livingston2011
Fu DogsJeffry Mitchell2005
FeastDan Webb2006
Venus Jar 4: My MothersHanako O’Leary2020
untitledEva Koťátková2011
untitledEva Koťátková2011
untitledEva Koťátková2011
Breathless #6Jennie C. Jones2008
Single CabinetLiz Magor2001
BabyNatalie Ball2018
Untitled #041220Georgina Reskala2017
Portrait of a womanFritz Hickmann1855
UntitledKo Kirk Yamahira2019
Lot 248 (still)Amie Siegel2013
TrapDuane Linklater2016
Pink on Black GroupKatherine Bradford2022
Mangahufo' I famaguonGisela McDaniel2021
Night ForestAnn Leda Shapiro2022
Three SlicesAmoako Boafo2021
Black Face with Wide ChestTschabalala Self2021
ButterflyBony Ramirez2021
Madrone + MullanSadie Wechsler2021
Becoming MineralClarissa Tossin2021
Untitled (Badlands)Juventino Aranda2018
EgungunCauleen Smith2015
Dress for SuccessRose Nestler2018
Strange BusinessRose Nestler2017-2018
FormationKelly Akashi2021
Portrait of Erwin WurmJoseph Park2007
After Boucher: UntitledMolly Jae Vaughan2022
Ear (Good)Srijon Chowdhury2022
Stylite AltarpieceEden Seifu2022
Ground of GroundHarry Gould Harvey IV2022
For FunKhari Johnson-Ricks2021
Disaster KitchenMolly Zuckerman-Hartung2008-2011
Baby BlueAmoako Boafo2021
From Sea to DawnRamin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian2016
The UnknownOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe2020
To a FlameAnthony White2019

Ground of Ground

Harry Gould Harvey IV

Black walnut from the Delano Sawmill, white oak from Prudence Island, MDF, colored pencil, charcoal, gouache, and pigments of goldenrod, Aronia Viking chokecherry, and rose petals

2022

Portrait of a woman

Fritz Hickmann

Oil on canvas mounted to board

1855

Solid Citizen

Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Glazed ceramic

2008

For Fun

Khari Johnson-Ricks

Watercolor on paper with acetate

2021

Silent Clusterfuck (Pyrite –fake gold)

Jennie C. Jones

Earbuds and acrylic 

2008

Breathless #6

Jennie C. Jones

Audio tape from the 1992 Kenny-G recording “Breathless”, under plexiglass 

2008

untitled

Eva Koťátková

Mixed media collage

2011

untitled

Eva Koťátková

Mixed media collage

2011

untitled

Eva Koťátková

Mixed media collage

2011

We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our Lives

Ellen Lesperance

Gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper

2015

Trap

Duane Linklater

Powder-coated trap, mirror, gypsum board, plywood, steel wall studs

2016

Study for 2x4 with yellow fill

Margie Livingston

Acrylic with steel wall mount/shelf

2011

Allegory of the Raging Sun

Kat Lyons

Oil on canvas

2021

Single Cabinet

Liz Magor

Polymerized gypsum, cans of beer

2001