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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
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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