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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
The Unknown   Quaicoe, Otis Kwame Kye   Oil on canvas  2020 
Stylite Altarpiece   Seifu, Eden   Acrylic on canvas   2022 
Ear (Good)   Chowdhury, Srijon   Oil on linen  2022 
Three Slices   Boafo, Amoako   Oil on canvas  2021 
Baby Blue   Boafo, Amoako   Oil on canvas  2021 
Pink on Black Group   Bradford, Katherine   Acrylic on canvas  2022 
Mangahufo' I famaguon   McDaniel, Gisela   Oil on panel, found objects, sound  2021 
Allegory of the Raging Sun   Lyons, Kat   Oil on canvas  2021 
Butterfly   Ramirez, Bony   Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts  2021 
Portrait of Erwin Wurm   Park, Joseph   Oil on panel  2007 
To a Flame   White, Anthony   PLA (plastic) on panel  2019 
this trembling turf (the shallows)   Peters, Mary Ann   White ink  2018 
Portrait of a woman   Hickmann, Fritz   Oil on canvas mounted to board  1855 


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