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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
After Boucher: Untitled   Vaughan, Molly Jae   Oil pencil on paper  2022 
Allegory of the Raging Sun   Lyons, Kat   Oil on canvas  2021 
Baby   Ball, Natalie   Cotton cloth, twine, clay, leather, metal jingles, deer legs, and shoes   2018 
Baby Blue   Boafo, Amoako   Oil on canvas  2021 
Becoming Mineral   Tossin, Clarissa   Porcelain   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 
Breathless #6   Jones, Jennie C.   Audio tape from the 1992 Kenny-G recording “Breathless”, under plexiglass    2008 
Butterfly   Ramirez, Bony   Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts  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 
Disaster Kitchen   Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly   Oil, collage, plastic garbage bag, camouflage pants  2008-2011 
Dress for Success   Nestler, Rose   Leather, thread, batting, grommets, hooks   2018 
Ear (Good)   Chowdhury, Srijon   Oil on linen  2022 
Egungun   Smith, Cauleen   Archival pigment print  2015 
Feast   Webb, Dan   Carved fir  2006 
For Fun   Johnson-Ricks, Khari   Watercolor on paper with acetate  2021 
Formation   Akashi, Kelly   Chromogenic crystallograph in aluminum artist's frame  2021 
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 
From Sea to Dawn   Haerizadeh, Ramin, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian   Digital video (color, silent); 6:21 min.  2016 
Frye   Tracy and the Plastics   Performance and video, sound, color  2006/2014 
Fu Dogs   Mitchell, Jeffry   Earthenware with luster glaze  2005 
Gingko biloba   Bennett, Gretchen Frances   Color pencil on paper  2023 
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 
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 
Lot 248 (still)   Siegel, Amie   Cibachrome print  2013 


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