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Frye Art Museum: Scenes of American Life
Scenes of American Life is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go,
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, touring the nation through
2002, while the museum is undergoing a major renovation. The Frye is
one of the fortunate sites select...
Frye Art Museum: Quiet Places, Reflective Moments: The Art of Del Gish
Born in rural Oklahoma, Del Gish received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho. Gish studied with Russian American master Sergei Bongart and helped organize the well-received Bongart workshops. Gish’s work is in public and p...
Frye Art Museum: Here I am - What We See and Think We Know
The Frye Art Museum's newest exhibition, Here I Am! Passages in Portraiture,
allows you to look at some old friends and new acquaintances to come to your
own definition. According to Debra Byrne, curator, "The magic of
portraiture can be pegge...
Frye Art Museum: Northwest Views: Selections from the SAFECO Collection
The artworks selected for Northwest Views range in date from mid-1930s to the present with a wide range of genres: landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, comic art, still lifes, wildlife, and scenes of everyday life. While all the artworks can be b...
Frye Art Museum: Rie Muñoz: One Hundred Original Watercolors
Born in Los Angeles, Muñoz began painting
scenes of Alaskan native life in the 1950s when
she first arrived in Juneau. During a varied
career, Muñoz created murals for the University
of Alaska and the Alaska State Library, wrote
and illu...
Frye Art Museum: Domenic Cretara: Portals
Cretara is a professor of art at California State University, Long Beach, and has participated in many exhibitions across the United States. His works are in public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the ...
Frye Art Museum: Painting on the Edge: The Art of William Beckman
His work, whether of a spouse, or parent, partner or friend, is the product of a long-term relationship between artist and subject. These relationships are what inspire the content on all of Beckmans work and in a room full of work by Beckman, it...
Frye Art Museum: Call for Participants: Participants Sought for Herring’s Task Performance
Inherent to the Task performance is its unpredictability: the artwork is created by the ideas of those on stage, as well as the relationships formed with one another. Therefore, the nature of the tasks depends on the participants’ decisions and ho...
Frye Art Museum: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing
The scope of subject matter extends from nudes to narrative, while styles range from spontaneous to painstaking renderings. The wide range of movements, linear rhythms, and points of view depicted with technical virtuosity and extraordinary draugh...
Frye Art Museum: Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg
The monotype process involves drawing or painting on a flat surface and then
transferring the image by means of pressure onto a sheet of paper. Only one strong
impression can be taken. Weisberg uses oil paint and printing ink, applying the med...
Frye Art Museum: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection
The richly painted landscapes reflect a time when the
American landscape was relatively unmarred by
development. At first glance, the paintings seem simply to
represent beauty, repose, and rest. At a deeper level,
however, the paintings ev...
Frye Art Museum: Allan Rohan Crite: Artist-Reporter of the African American Community
Beyond depicting the particular events and spaces of the African American
community, Allan Crite's imagery acknowledges spiritual values and traditions.
A devout Episcopalian, the artist also turned his attention and talents toward
sac...
Frye Art Museum: Tony Foster: World Views
Foster focuses his energy on painting fragile wilderness
regions with an eye to conservation: My work is about
wilderness, a celebration of the fact that even on our
overcrowded and increasingly polluted planet there exist
places o...
Frye Art Museum: Celebrating Women in the Arts Features a Juried Photography Exhibition: Contemporary Northwest Women Photographers:
The Washington State Convention and Trade Center (WSCTC), in collaboration with the Frye Art Museum, will also host an exhibition of selected works from the entries to promote the Celebrating Women in the Arts event. The WSCTC exhibition will take...
Frye Art Museum: Heartland: The Paintings of Bo Bartlett
Bartlett’s powerful and engaging paintings fall well within the tradition of 20th-century American realism. Like American masters such as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett has looked at the people and land around him and in...
Frye Art Museum: An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings
The artist began his inquiry into the representation of bodies in space in the 1950s, at the height of American abstract expressionism. The ideals of abstract expressionism—a commitment to nonrepresentational art and chiefly improvisational method...
Frye Art Museum: Scott B. Goodwillie: Figuring the Forces
Painting in a realist style, Goodwillie combines smooth, studied Dutch brushstrokes with more edgy, contemporary subjects to create works that are both classically masterful and modern in mood. His Figuring the Forces exhibition features canvases ...
Frye Art Museum: Representing LA: Contemporary Representational Artists from Los Angeles
Much of the work engages the viewer with
startling reconfigurations of familiar subjects and
themes. In doing so, the artists included in the
exhibition have revitalized a number of genres
long thought passé in contemporary a...
Frye Art Museum: William Cumming: The Image of Consequence
Guest Curator Matthew Kangas, distinguished art critic and art historian, assembles more than 130 paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs, from 1935 to the present, in the Greathouse and Graphics Galleries. Kangas positions Cumming within A...
Frye Art Museum: Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
Acting Out introduces rarely viewed photographs and documents of Cahun and Moore. Their performances were constructed in private for the camera and were to be viewed exclusively as photographs. Called performances for the camera, this art form has...
Frye Art Museum: Stephan Fisher: Chimeras
In his work, the artist deals with illusion and the play of light and shadow on a dizzy array of objects, which are often grouped on reflective surfaces that dissolve the boundries between the object and its setting. Patterns created by floor tile...
Frye Art Museum: Thomas Williams Jones: Three Decades of Watercolors
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Frye Art Museum: Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust
Organized by historian Stephen Feinstein and Minnesota
Museum of American Art curator Paul Spencer, Witness
...
Frye Art Museum: ROBERT VAN VRANKEN: Silent Paintings
As the artist states I paint
because I have dreamed of a painting that
would stop the world.
A native of New York State, Van Vranken
graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine and
the San Francisco Art Institute. He has...
Frye Art Museum: An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum
The paintings, sculptures and watercolors once adorned the walls of Russian palaces and reflect the collecting tastes of royalty and well-born families in 18th- and 19th- century Russia. For many years, the paintings have been part of Russia’s off...
Frye Art Museum: Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, 1907–1975
Porter’s achievements are highly regarded within the art world today, but little known outside it. His extraordinarily intimate paintings, however, continue to have a wide-ranging and immediate appeal to viewers across the country. This exhibition...
Frye Art Museum: Patrick Huse: RIFT
The exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the
American-Scandinavian Foundation. An illustrated book,
RIFT, with essays by Richard V. West, Folke Edwards,
Hans Albert Peters, and Øystein Loge is being published
in connection wi...
Frye Art Museum: Northwest Watercolor Society 60th Annual Open Exhibition: A Retrospective
Membership in the Northwest Watercolor Society is open to
residents of the US and Canada. Any person or group may become an Associate Member upon
payment of ...
Frye Art Museum: Pioneer Women Photographers: Myra Albert Wiggins, Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Imogen Cunningham, and Ella E. McBride
Myra Albert Wiggins is perhaps the earliest internationally known artist from the Northwest. She studied painting under some of the finest American artists of the day including John H.Twachtman (1853-1902) and William Merrit Chase (1849-1916), wh...
Frye Art Museum: Winold Reiss: Native American Portraits
Many of the sitters
became close friends, and the Blackfeet elders dubbed Reiss
Ksistakpoka, or Beaver Child. The artist's identification
with his sitters continued even after his death when his ashes
were scattered at the reservation ...
Frye Art Museum: Etched in Memory: Women Printmakers from the Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang Collection
The Langs, University of Washington professors emeriti,
suggested a number of cultural, demographic, and societal reasons for the neglect of
these talented and once-admired artists. At the conclusion of their study, they challenged
their reader...
Frye Art Museum: Shelley Jordan: Revealing Beauty
In 1994, Jordon was a visiting artist at the
American Academy in Rome. There, she
discovered examples of an ancient Roman
painting tradition called humilia, mural-sized
paintings of domestic scenes and interiors
that exerted a signi...
Frye Art Museum: Beyond Reason: Paintings and Monoprints by Mark Spencer
Spencer’s painting skills allow him to draw from an eclectic mix of pictorial modes, including the strategies of Flemish nature morte, German Romanticism, and realism. What is common to Spencer’s art is his meticulous brushwork, carefully balanced co...
Frye Art Museum: Lilian Broca: Mirrors and Reflections
Also on view are drawings from an
earlier series, Brides, a metaphor
for the conflict between t...
Frye Art Museum: Edward Steichen: Vanity Fair Portraits
In the Hollywood portraits, Steichen infused his imagery with theatrical
lighting and progressive ideals of design drawn from major art movements
of the day, such as the streamlined forms of art deco and the elemental
...
Frye Art Museum: Gary Faigin: Tradition and Contradiction
Conducting
these gentle tensions is the hand of a consummate
formalist. The witty contradictions are made
possible, even beautiful, because they float on a
harmonious grid of symmetry and are...
Frye Art Museum: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
The exciting presentation includes the
work of several prominent pre-war European photographers
published in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine
Camerawork; a very significant group o...
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