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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
Tender Arctic   Machetanz, Fred   Oil on Masonite  1973 
Akon, Eskimo Boy   Machetanz, Fred   Charcoal and pastel on paper  1947 
Coming into the Open   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1966 
Seegoo, the Sled Dog   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1951 
The Grass is Always Greener   Machetanz, Fred   Oil on Masonite  1988 
Heritage of Alaska   Machetanz, Fred   Offset lithograph  1984 
Over the Pass   Machetanz, Fred   Oil on Masonite  1963 
Along Arctic Ice   Machetanz, Fred   Oil on canvas  1977 
Out of the Fog   Machetanz, Fred   Oil on Masonite  1965 
Accibuk the Seal Hunter   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1946 
Eskimo Mother   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1946 
The Hunt   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1947 
Rough Weather   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1947 
Trailmates   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1948 
Tomcod Fisher   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1948 
Eskimo Dance and Drummer   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1949 
Skookum   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1949 
Seegoo, the Sled Dog   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1951 
Panning for Gold   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1951 
Sourdough   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1952 
Wilderness Home   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1952 
Ice Fall - Knik Glacier   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1953 
Indian Trapper   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1953 
Miowak the Bootmaker   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1956 
Cutting Fish   Machetanz, Fred   Lithograph  1956 


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