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
FeastDan Webb2006
Venus Jar 4: My MothersHanako O’Leary2020
FryeTracy and the Plastics2006-2014
Sister TotemMarita Dingus2023
Solid CitizenJessica Jackson Hutchins2008
Study for 2x4 with yellow fillMargie Livingston2011
Fu DogsJeffry Mitchell2005
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
Three SlicesAmoako Boafo2021
Black Face with Wide ChestTschabalala Self2021
ButterflyBony Ramirez2021
Madrone + MullanSadie Wechsler2021
Mangahufo' I famaguonGisela McDaniel2021
Night ForestAnn Leda Shapiro2022
Becoming MineralClarissa Tossin2021
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
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

Mangahufo' I famaguon

Gisela McDaniel

Oil on panel, found objects, sound

2021

Fu Dogs

Jeffry Mitchell

Earthenware with luster glaze

2005

Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey Balls

Jeffry Mitchell

Glazed earthenware

2008

Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)

Jeffry Mitchell

Graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper

2018

Dress for Success

Rose Nestler

Leather, thread, batting, grommets, hooks

2018

Strange Business

Rose Nestler

Two-channel digital video (color, silent): 20 min.

2017-18

Venus Jar 4: My Mothers

Hanako O’Leary

Clay

2020

Portrait of Erwin Wurm

Joseph Park

Oil on panel

2007

this trembling turf (the shallows)

Mary Ann Peters

White ink

2018

The Unknown

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

Oil on canvas

2020

From Sea to Dawn

Hesam Rahmanian

Digital video (color, silent); 6:21 min.

2016

Butterfly

Bony Ramirez

Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts

2021

Untitled #041220

Georgina Reskala

Gelatin silver print

2017

Stylite Altarpiece

Eden Seifu

Acrylic on canvas

2022

Black Face Red Bone with Black Bob

Tschabalala Self

Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print

2021