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 |
| The Edith Wharton you can afford | Cerny, Dawn | Wood, plaster tape, textiles, found ephemera from studio of Nancy Shaver, Apoxie Sculpt, paint | 2021 |
| Covid March (after unemployment, the park, then home) | Cerny, Dawn | Wood, drawings, textiles, clipboard, Apoxie Sculpt, polymer clay, paint, found ephemera from studio of Nancy Shaver | 2021 |
| Becoming Mineral | Tossin, Clarissa | Porcelain | 2021 |
| Black Face with Wide Chest | Self, Tschabalala | Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print | 2021 |
| Black Face Red Bone with Black Bob | Self, Tschabalala | Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print | 2021 |
| Three Slices | Boafo, Amoako | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
| Baby Blue | Boafo, Amoako | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
| For Fun | Johnson-Ricks, Khari | Watercolor on paper with acetate | 2021 |
| Mangahufo' I famaguon | McDaniel, Gisela | Oil on panel, found objects, sound | 2021 |
| Allegory of the Raging Sun | Lyons, Kat | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
| Madrone + Mullan | Wechsler, Sadie | Archival inkjet print in madrone artist's frame | 2021 |
| Formation | Akashi, Kelly | Chromogenic crystallograph in aluminum artist's frame | 2021 |
| Butterfly | Ramirez, Bony | Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts | 2021 |
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