Recent Acquisitions | Frye Art Museum

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

Covid March (after unemployment, the park, then home)Dawn Cerny2021

The Edith Wharton you can affordDawn Cerny2021

Sister TotemMarita Dingus2023

Solid CitizenJessica Jackson Hutchins2008

We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our LivesEllen Lesperance2015

Study for 2x4 with yellow fillMargie Livingston2011

Fu DogsJeffry Mitchell2005

Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey BallsJeffry Mitchell2008

FeastDan Webb2006

Venus Jar 4: My MothersHanako O’Leary2020

untitledEva Koťátková2011

Silent Clusterfuck (Pyrite –fake gold)Jennie C. Jones2008

Breathless #6Jennie C. Jones2008

Single CabinetLiz Magor2001

BabyNatalie Ball2018

Untitled #041220Georgina Reskala2017

Portrait of a womanFritz Hickmann1855

this trembling turf (the shallows)Mary Ann Peters2018

UntitledKo Kirk Yamahira2019

Lot 248 (still)Amie Siegel2013

TrapDuane Linklater2016

Pink on Black GroupKatherine Bradford2022

Mangahufo' I famaguonGisela McDaniel2021

Night ForestAnn Leda Shapiro2022

Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of aboveSky Hopinka2020

Three SlicesAmoako Boafo2021

Black Face Red Bone with Black BobTschabalala Self2021

Black Face with Wide ChestTschabalala Self2021

ButterflyBony Ramirez2021

Madrone + MullanSadie Wechsler2021

Rising Temperature Casualty (Prunus persica, home garden, Los Angeles)Clarissa Tossin2022

Becoming MineralClarissa Tossin2021

Untitled (Badlands)Juventino Aranda2018

EgungunCauleen Smith2015

Dress for SuccessRose Nestler2018

Strange BusinessRose Nestler2017-2018

FormationKelly Akashi2021

Portrait of Erwin WurmJoseph Park2007

Allegory of the Raging SunKat Lyons2021

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

If Marco Polo Brought the Pasta Meme to Europe from China, He didn't Need to be a Pasta Chef but all he Had to do was to Disperse the Meme in the Environment and Other Humans Infected by it, Would Express it in their BehaviourRokni Haerizadeh2017-2018

Baby BlueAmoako Boafo2021

From Sea to DawnRamin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian2016

The UnknownOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe2020

Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)Jeffry Mitchell2018

To a FlameAnthony White2019

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by Year

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