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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
Formation   Akashi, Kelly   Chromogenic crystallograph in aluminum artist's frame  2021 
Untitled (Badlands)   Aranda, Juventino   Oil on wool Pendleton blanket  2018 
Baby   Ball, Natalie   Cotton cloth, twine, clay, leather, metal jingles, deer legs, and shoes   2018 
Gingko   Bennett, Gretchen Frances   Color pencil on paper  2023 
Baby Blue   Boafo, Amoako   Oil on canvas  2021 
Three Slices   Boafo, Amoako   Oil on canvas  2021 
Pink on Black Group   Bradford, Katherine   Acrylic on canvas  2022 
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 
Ear (Good)   Chowdhury, Srijon   Oil on linen  2022 
Sister Totem   Dingus, Marita   Ceramic and mixed media  2023 
Tracy + the Plastics   Greenwood, Wynne   Video (color, sound)  2006/2014 
From Sea to Dawn   Haerizadeh, Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian   Digital video (color, silent); 6:21 min.  2016 
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 
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 
Portrait of a woman   Hickmann, Fritz   Oil on canvas mounted to board  1855 
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 
Solid Citizen   Jackson Hutchins, Jessica   Glazed ceramic  2008 
For Fun   Johnson-Ricks, Khari   Watercolor on paper with acetate  2021 
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 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
untitled   Koťátková, Eva   Mixed media collage   2011 
We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our Lives   Lesperance, Ellen   Gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper  2015 


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