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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
Portrait of a woman   Hickmann, Fritz   Oil on canvas mounted to board  1855 
Single Cabinet   Magor, Liz   Polymerized gypsum, cans of beer  2001 
Fu Dogs   Mitchell, Jeffry   Earthenware with luster glaze  2005 
Feast   Webb, Dan   Carved fir  2006 
Tracy + the Plastics   Greenwood, Wynne   Video (color, sound)  2006/2014 
Portrait of Erwin Wurm   Park, Joseph   Oil on panel  2007 
Silent Clusterfuck (Pyrite –fake gold)   Jones, Jennie C.   Earbuds and acrylic    2008 
Breathless #6   Jones, Jennie C.   Audio tape from the 1992 Kenny-G recording “Breathless”, under plexiglass    2008 
Solid Citizen   Jackson Hutchins, Jessica   Glazed ceramic  2008 
Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey Balls   Mitchell, Jeffry   Glazed earthenware  2008 
Disaster Kitchen   Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly   Oil, collage, plastic garbage bag, camouflage pants  2008-2011 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
Study for 2x4 with yellow fill   Livingston, Margie   Acrylic with steel wall shelf  2011 
Lot 248 (still)   Siegel, Amie   Cibachrome print  2013 
Egungun   Smith, Cauleen   Archival pigment print  2015 
We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our Lives   Lesperance, Ellen   Gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper  2015 
From Sea to Dawn   Haerizadeh, Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian   Digital video (color, silent); 6:21 min.  2016 
Trap   Linklater, Duane   Powder-coated trap, mirror, gypsum board, plywood, steel wall studs  2016 
Untitled #041220   Reskala, Georgina   Gelatin silver print  2017 
If Marco Polo Brought the Pasta Meme to Europe from China, He didn't Need to be a Pasta Chef but all he Had to do was to Disperse the Meme in the Environment and Other Humans Infected by it, Would Express it in their Behaviour   Haerizadeh, Rokni   Gesso, watercolor and ink on printed paper  2017-18 
Strange Business   Nestler, Rose   Two-channel digital video (color, silent): 20 min.  2017-18 
Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)   Mitchell, Jeffry   Graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper  2018 
this trembling turf (the shallows)   Peters, Mary Ann   White ink  2018 


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