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 |
this trembling turf (the shallows) | Peters, Mary Ann | White ink | 2018 |
Untitled (Badlands) | Aranda, Juventino | Oil on wool Pendleton blanket | 2018 |
Dress for Success | Nestler, Rose | Leather, thread, batting, grommets, hooks | 2018 |
Baby | Ball, Natalie | Cotton cloth, twine, clay, leather, metal jingles, deer legs, and shoes | 2018 |
To a Flame | White, Anthony | PLA (plastic) on panel | 2019 |
Untitled | Yamahira, Ko Kirk | Acrylic and graphite on partially unwoven canvas with wood | 2019 |
Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above | Hopinka, Sky | Inkjet print on Dibond | 2020 |
The Unknown | Quaicoe, Otis Kwame Kye | Oil on canvas | 2020 |
Venus Jar 4: My Mothers | O’Leary, Hanako | Clay | 2020 |
Butterfly | Ramirez, Bony | Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts | 2021 |
Formation | Akashi, Kelly | Chromogenic crystallograph in aluminum artist's frame | 2021 |
Madrone + Mullan | Wechsler, Sadie | Archival inkjet print in madrone artist's frame | 2021 |
Allegory of the Raging Sun | Lyons, Kat | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
Mangahufo' I famaguon | McDaniel, Gisela | Oil on panel, found objects, sound | 2021 |
For Fun | Johnson-Ricks, Khari | Watercolor on paper with acetate | 2021 |
Baby Blue | Boafo, Amoako | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
Three Slices | Boafo, Amoako | Oil on canvas | 2021 |
Black Face Red Bone with Black Bob | Self, Tschabalala | Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print | 2021 |
Black Face with Wide Chest | Self, Tschabalala | Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print | 2021 |
Becoming Mineral | Tossin, Clarissa | Porcelain | 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 |
The Edith Wharton you can afford | Cerny, Dawn | Wood, plaster tape, textiles, found ephemera from studio of Nancy Shaver, Apoxie Sculpt, paint | 2021 |
After Boucher: Untitled | Vaughan, Molly Jae | Oil pencil on paper | 2022 |
Ear (Good) | Chowdhury, Srijon | Oil on linen | 2022 |
Stylite Altarpiece | Seifu, Eden | Acrylic on canvas | 2022 |
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