Frye Art Museum - 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 ten 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.

Recent Acquisitions

by Artist

by Year

by Object Type

Max Delys, from Red Book #178

Michael Sklar, from Red Book #178

Landscape #7

Untitled [Portrait of an elderly woman]

Tree Guard

Untitled

Untitled (XIV)

Not Waving, but Drowning

Get up!

Tradition as Adaptive Strategy

Untitled [Uli figure from New Ireland, Melanesia, early 20th century]

Ode to Octavia Part 12: (Sparkles)...Recollections of the Wraith

Ode to Octavia: Cranium Adornment #5

Ode to Octavia: Neo-Ancient Taliswoman

Untitled [Details of serpent from Die Sünde (Sin) by Franz von Stuck]

Untitled [Frame from Die Sünde (Sin) by Franz von Stuck]

Untitled [Details of serpent from Die Sünde (Sin) by Franz von Stuck]

Clinkers

Untitled