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Pacific Northwest Artists

The Frye Art Museum’s substantial collection of works by artists of the Pacific Northwest reflects the Museum’s transformation from a personal selection of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century—predominantly European—oil paintings to a museum dedicated to creative practice in its myriad forms. Since opening in 1952 to the present day, the Museum has remained steadfast in exhibiting and collecting artworks by contemporary artists, especially those living and practicing in the city of Seattle and surrounding region. Walser Sly Greathouse, executor of the Frye estate and founding director of the Museum, ensured Charles and Emma Frye's vision for a free, public art museum for the people of Seattle was brought to life. Beginning in 1952, Greathouse was the first of six directors who expanded the Museum’s collection, acquiring new works to enliven and contextualize the paintings bequeathed by the Fryes. Subsequent leaders sustained the Museum’s legacy within the evolving identity of the Pacific Northwest through the ongoing collection and exhibition of works by artists of the region—from Washington and Oregon up to Alaska. The Museum’s extensive holdings of Alaskan art were initially assembled by the Museum’s second director, Ida Kay Greathouse. Between 1969 and 1993, she acquired over 125 paintings and works on paper. Subsequent Frye directors Richard V. West, Midge Bowman, and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker added 175 more works by artists associated with the northernmost state. Highlights of the Pacific Northwest holdings range from twentieth-century Alaskan landscapes by artists such as Sydney Laurence and Eustace Paul Ziegler, to evocative works by contemporary artists and artist collectives across a broad range of mediums, including Juventino Aranda, the Black Constellation, Alison Bremner, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffry Mitchell, Buster Simpson, and Ko Kirk Yamahira, among others.

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Title Artist Medium Date
State Fair   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Tempera on paper  1975-76 
Untitled [Eight dolls]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Valentine card inscribed to Wes Wehr]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Card with Christmas tree on front and poem on reverse]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  1961 
Untitled [Easter Basket]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Easter doll]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 
Girl Under Mistletoe   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  after 1960 
Northwest Coast Indian Mask   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1953-55 
Mark Tobey's Eskimo Mask   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  ca. 1954 
Untitled   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1950 
Makah Thunderbird   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1939-40 
Mark Went A-Wooing   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut with monoprint inking  1955-56 
Chief Seattle   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1950s 
Untitled   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Watercolor on paper  ca. 1955-59 
Untitled   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Watercolor on paper  ca. 1955-59 
Imaginative Perception   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1933-34 
Farmer's Market - A Tobey Troll   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  ca. 1955-56 
Untitled   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Linocut  1956 
Untitled [Hearts and Flowers]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Watercolor on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Flower Stalk]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Watercolor on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Holly Flower]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Watercolor on paper  after 1960 
Untitled   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Cut paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Uli figure from New Ireland, Melanesia, early 20th century]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Pencil and ink on paper  ca. 1967-68 
Untitled [Pink flower postcard with written message]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 
Untitled [Easter Bunny postcard]   Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar   Felt-tip pen on paper  after 1960 


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