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.
by Artist
by Artist
by Year
by Object Type
To a Flame
Anthony White
PLA (plastic) on panel
2019
this trembling turf (the shallows)
Mary Ann Peters
White ink
2018
Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)
Jeffry Mitchell
Graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper
2018
From Sea to Dawn
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Digital video (color, silent); 6:21 min.
2016
Portrait of a woman
Fritz Hickmann
Oil on canvas mounted to board
1855
shadow swing
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
fused and leaded glass
2024
Red Cliff
Victor Kai Wang
Marking pen ink on laminated plastic
1989
Totem
Antonia Kuo
Ceramic
2017
T wall prayer hands
Hayv Kahraman
Oil and acrylic on linen
2023
CARGAMONTÓN
Rafael Soldi
Aquatint photogravures
2022
Armour Pattern #3
Diane Simpson
Collagraph print
1975
Retail Layout Variable with Golden Debossed Pairs
LaKela Brown
Silkscreen and letterpress
2024
Retail Layout Variable with Golden Debossed Pairs
LaKela Brown
Silkscreen and letterpress
2024
Retail Layout Variable with Golden Debossed Pairs
LaKela Brown
Silkscreen and letterpress
2024
BC (4011)
Sterling Ruby
Fabric, glue, paint, bleached canvas on panel in bronze frame
2012
Supper
Nikki Maloof
Single-color lithograph on soft white Somerset velvet
2025
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