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.
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| Title | Artist | Medium | Date |
| Rising Temperature Casualty (Prunus persica, home garden, Los Angeles) | Tossin, Clarissa | Silicone, black pigment, tree bark | 2022 |
| Stylite Altarpiece | Seifu, Eden | Acrylic on canvas | 2022 |
| Ear (Good) | Chowdhury, Srijon | Oil on linen | 2022 |
| Ground of Ground | Harvey IV, Harry Gould | 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 |
| Pink on Black Group | Bradford, Katherine | Acrylic on canvas | 2022 |
| Night Forest | Shapiro, Ann Leda | Watercolor and watercolor pencil on archival paper | 2022 |
| After Boucher: Untitled | Vaughan, Molly Jae | Oil pencil on paper | 2022 |
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