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.
Recent Acquisitions
Gingko bilobaGretchen Frances Bennett
Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey BallsJeffry Mitchell
FeastDan Webb
Venus Jar 4: My MothersHanako O’Leary
FryeTracy and the Plastics
The Edith Wharton you can affordDawn Cerny
Sister TotemMarita Dingus
Solid CitizenJessica Jackson Hutchins
We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our LivesEllen Lesperance
Study for 2x4 with yellow fillMargie Livingston
Fu DogsJeffry Mitchell
untitledEva Koťátková
untitledEva Koťátková
untitledEva Koťátková
Silent Clusterfuck (Pyrite –fake gold)Jennie C. Jones
Breathless #6Jennie C. Jones
Single CabinetLiz Magor
BabyNatalie Ball
Untitled #041220Georgina Reskala
Portrait of a womanFritz Hickmann
this trembling turf (the shallows)Mary Ann Peters
UntitledKo Kirk Yamahira
Lot 248 (still)Amie Siegel
TrapDuane Linklater
Pink on Black GroupKatherine Bradford
Three SlicesAmoako Boafo
Black Face Red Bone with Black BobTschabalala Self
Black Face with Wide ChestTschabalala Self
ButterflyBony Ramirez
Madrone + MullanSadie Wechsler
Mangahufo' I famaguonGisela McDaniel
Night ForestAnn Leda Shapiro
Becoming MineralClarissa Tossin
Stylite AltarpieceEden Seifu
Ground of GroundHarry Gould Harvey IV
For FunKhari Johnson-Ricks
Disaster KitchenMolly Zuckerman-Hartung
Baby BlueAmoako Boafo
From Sea to DawnRamin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
The UnknownOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)Jeffry Mitchell
To a FlameAnthony White
Untitled (Badlands)Juventino Aranda
EgungunCauleen Smith
Dress for SuccessRose Nestler
Strange BusinessRose Nestler
FormationKelly Akashi
Portrait of Erwin WurmJoseph Park
Allegory of the Raging SunKat Lyons
After Boucher: UntitledMolly Jae Vaughan
Ear (Good)Srijon Chowdhury
