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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
Trap   Linklater, Duane   Powder-coated trap, mirror, gypsum board, plywood, steel wall studs  2016 
Study for 2x4 with yellow fill   Livingston, Margie   Acrylic with steel wall shelf  2011 
Allegory of the Raging Sun   Lyons, Kat   Oil on canvas  2021 
Single Cabinet   Magor, Liz   Polymerized gypsum, cans of beer  2001 
Mangahufo' I famaguon   McDaniel, Gisela   Oil on panel, found objects, sound  2021 
Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)   Mitchell, Jeffry   Graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper  2018 
Fu Dogs   Mitchell, Jeffry   Earthenware with luster glaze  2005 
Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey Balls   Mitchell, Jeffry   Glazed earthenware  2008 
Dress for Success   Nestler, Rose   Leather, thread, batting, grommets, hooks   2018 
Strange Business   Nestler, Rose   Two-channel digital video (color, silent): 20 min.  2017-18 
Venus Jar 4: My Mothers   O’Leary, Hanako   Clay  2020 
Portrait of Erwin Wurm   Park, Joseph   Oil on panel  2007 
this trembling turf (the shallows)   Peters, Mary Ann   White ink  2018 
The Unknown   Quaicoe, Otis Kwame Kye   Oil on canvas  2020 
Butterfly   Ramirez, Bony   Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts  2021 
Untitled #041220   Reskala, Georgina   Gelatin silver print  2017 
Stylite Altarpiece   Seifu, Eden   Acrylic on canvas   2022 
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 
Night Forest   Shapiro, Ann Leda   Watercolor and watercolor pencil on archival paper  2022 
Lot 248 (still)   Siegel, Amie   Cibachrome print  2013 
Egungun   Smith, Cauleen   Archival pigment print  2015 
Rising Temperature Casualty (Prunus persica, home garden, Los Angeles)   Tossin, Clarissa   Silicone, black pigment, tree bark  2022 
Becoming Mineral   Tossin, Clarissa   Porcelain   2021 
After Boucher: Untitled   Vaughan, Molly Jae   Oil pencil on paper  2022 


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