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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.

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Title Artist Medium Date
Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey Balls   Mitchell, Jeffry   Glazed earthenware  2008 
Solid Citizen   Jackson Hutchins, Jessica   Glazed ceramic  2008 
Breathless #6   Jones, Jennie C.   Audio tape from the 1992 Kenny-G recording “Breathless”, under plexiglass    2008 
Silent Clusterfuck (Pyrite –fake gold)   Jones, Jennie C.   Earbuds and acrylic    2008 


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