Frye Art Museum
A free museum built around a founding collection of late-19th and early-20th-century painting, with a rotating exhibitions program focused on regional and international contemporary creative practice.
Located on Seattle’s First Hill, the Frye Art Museum first opened its doors in 1952 as the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye, prominent early-twentieth-century Seattle business leaders and art collectors.
The collection includes nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century German and American paintings, as well as more contemporary works that bridge visual art, media, and installation.
In addition to the founding collection of Charles and Emma Frye always on view, the Museum hosts a wide variety of rotating exhibitions featuring local, national, and international artists. Admission to the Museum is always free.
Image Captions
- Building entrance, Frye Art Museum. Photo: Skip Howard.
- Installation view of Frye Salon, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, May 21 – August 30, 2015. Photos: Mark Woods
- Mary Ann Peters. this trembling turf (the hollow), 2021. White ink on black clayboard. 60 x 48 in. Collection of the Seattle Convention Center. Image courtesy of James Harris Gallery. Photo: Rafael Soldi
- Hayv Kahraman. Love Me Love Me Not, 2023. Oil and acrylic on linen. 80 x 100 in. Courtesy of the artist; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Pilar Corrias, London; The Third Line, Dubai; and Vielmetter Los Angeles Photo: Courtesy Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography
- Ellen Lesperance. We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our Lives, 2015. Gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper. 22 x 29 ½ in. Frye Art Museum, Gift of Cathy and Michael Casteel, 2024.006.02
- Natalie Krick. Merge Layers, 2024. Digital collage. 190 1/2 x 245 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist
