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Frye Art Museum 2012 Annual Report Frye Art Museum 2012 Annual Report CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR 3 STEWARDSHIP Collections 4 Acquisitions and Gifts of Art to the Museum 5 Artworks on Loan 6 EXHIBITIONS Exhibitions 8 Lenders 10 Publications 11 Selected Reviews 12 ARTS ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS Students 13 Adults 14 Educators 15 Community Programs and Events 16 Community Partners 17 SUPPORT Foundations, Funding Agencies, Corporations, Media Sponsors, In-Kind Contributors, and Individual Donors 18 Sustained Support 19 Membership 20 Volunteers 26 Cover: Isaac Layman. Untitled (detail), 2011. Photographic construction, ink-jet on paper. 59 x 78 in. Frye Art Museum, Purchase, Randolph STAFF 28 Philip Koelsch Bequest, 2011.009. Opposite: Charles Sprague Pearce. Sainte Genevieve (detail), 1887. Oil on canvas. 82 x 66 in. Courtesy of an anonymous lender. Photo: TJ Johnson FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT 1 MISSION STATEMENT The Frye Art Museum is a living legacy of visionary patronage and civic responsibility, committed to Small Frye: Storytelling in the Galleries. Frye Art Museum. Photo: Greg Plumis artistic inquiry and a rich visitor experience. A catalyst for our engagement with contemporary art and artists is the Founding Collection of Charles and Emma Frye, access to which shall always be free. 2 FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT FPO LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR On February 8, 2012, the Frye Art Museum celebrated Beloved extended the Frye’s commitment to innovation and exploration of its 60th anniversary. Trustees and sta! gathered to the changing role the museum. Frieda Sondland, a ninety-one-year-old acknowledge the momentous occasion and to pay resident of the First Hill neighborhood who has visited the Frye nearly tribute to Charles and Emma Frye. With a renewed every day for more than a decade, chose the works in the exhibition as a sense of purpose and excitement, the Frye began “citizen curator,” as part of our continuing investigation into redefining the another year dedicated to serving the community with relationship between the Museum and our diverse audiences. free access to its collections, exhibitions, and arts engagement programs. “The Perfection of Good-Nature” brought important new scholarship and understanding of the Founding Collection by tracing, for the first time, the Fiscal year 2012 was a year of celebration and of history of Charles and Emma Frye’s art collection. Research also docu- accomplishment made possible by the visionary civic mented Charles Frye’s visionary plan in 1915 for an art museum in Seattle’s patronage of Charles and Emma Frye and by the Volunteer Park that would have brought together the finest collections in generosity of Museum trustees, members and many Seattle at the time under one roof. Photo: TJ Johnson other individual donors, foundations, government agencies, and corpora- tions, who are acknowledged in the pages of this report. The Seattle Times Our commitment to serving the needs of our community extends beyond reported the Frye’s 60th anniversary on the front page of the paper, the Museum’s walls. With our educational programs and outreach, we highlighting Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition, one of three exhibitions which value approaches that have a multiplier e!ect on the quality of life in launched our anniversary year. Seattle. We are proud of our here:now program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners, Small Frye: Storytelling in the Galleries We are grateful for the support we received and are pleased to report that for preschool-age children, and Path with Art for those transitioning from through challenging economic times, the Frye Art Museum’s finances homelessness. These and many other arts engagement programs are free remain strong and secure. Our resources are being carefully and for everyone. Our goals are to create a strong, positive sense of place, to thoughtfully stewarded: this year 100 percent of the support we received unite disparate parts of the community in constructive ways, and to meet from the community was dedicated to our exhibitions and education and some of the most pressing needs of our community. community-outreach programs. The past year, we also refurbished the Frye’s gallery spaces, store, and café. Through the dedication of our trustees, sta!, members, and volunteers, the Frye Art Museum continues to enhance the community’s cultural All of the exhibitions presented at the Frye this past fiscal year were health and well-being through the shared experience of art. We invite you researched, conceived, curated, and produced in-house. We are proud to to take part in our activities and to visit the Frye often in the year ahead. have supported and presented the work of contemporary artists, including Isaac Layman and Susie J. Lee, two exceptional Seattle-based artists seen David Buck, President, Board of Trustees in their first solo museum exhibitions; Li Chen, an internationally renowned Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Director BOARD OF TRUSTEES sculptor working in Shanghai and Taiwan; and Liu Ding, one of China’s David D. Buck, President leading conceptual artists, who received his first U.S. solo exhibition at the Jan Hendrickson, Vice President Frye. Frank P. Stagen, Vice President Kate Janeway, Secretary This year the Frye Founding Collection was shown to critical acclaim and Douglas D. Adkins, Treasurer the delight of visitors in three major exhibitions: Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition; Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe; and “The Perfection of DIRECTOR Good-Nature”: Frye Founding Collection. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT 3 STEWARDSHIP Collections Frye Collection Artworks 1,300 Founding Collection Artworks 232 Artists in the Collections 498 Above: Opposite, clockwise from left: Otto Dix. Bettlerin (Beggar), 1924. Lithograph on Isaac Layman. Untitled, 2011. Photographic Isaac Layman. Untitled, 2011. Photographic Susie J. Lee. Still Lives: Exposure, 2010. High paper. 19 1/2 x 12 13/16 in. Frye Art Museum, construction, ink-jet on paper. 59 x 78 in. construction, ink-jet on paper. Each 45 x 120 in. definition video in a framed, matted LED Gift of Dr. Thomas D. Lonner and Henry J. Frye Art Museum, Purchase, Randolph Philip Frye Art Museum, Gift of Isaac and Camilla monitor. Frye Art Museum, Purchase, Frye Dietrich, 2012.002. Koelsch Bequest, 2011.009. Layman, 2011.010A,B. Foundation and O"eld Family Foundation, 2012.001. 4 FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT STEWARDSHIP Acquisitions and Gifts of Art to the Museum Acquisitions and Gifts 4 Otto Dix German, 1891–1969 Bettlerin (Beggar), 1924 Lithograph on paper 19 1/2 x 12 13/16 in. Frye Art Museum, Gift of Dr. Thomas D. Lonner and Henry J. Dietrich, 2012.002 Isaac Layman American, b. 1977 Untitled, 2011 Photographic construction, ink-jet on paper 59 x 78 in. Frye Art Museum, Purchase, Randolph Philip Koelsch Bequest, 2011.009 Untitled, 2011 Photographic construction, ink-jet on paper Each 45 x 120 in. Frye Art Museum, Gift of Isaac and Camilla Layman, 2011.010A,B Susie J. Lee American, b. 1972 Still Lives: Exposure, 2010 High definition video in a framed, matted LED monitor Frye Art Museum, Purchase, Frye Foundation and O"eld Family Foundation, 2012.001 FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT 5 STEWARDSHIP Artworks on Loan Loans to Other Museums 5 Exhibition The World of Nicolai Fechin- From Kazan to Taos The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan November 2, 2011–January 15, 2012 The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg February 29–May 9, 2012 The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow May 23–July 29, 2012 Exhibition Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters: Nicolai Fechin The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN August 25, 2012–January 20, 2013 Artworks Portrait of a Young Woman, 1912 Portrait of a Writer (Nikolai N. Nicolai Fechin Oil on canvas Evreinov), 1926 b. Kazan 1887, d. California 1955 31 3/4 x 28 in. Oil on canvas Frye Art Museum, 1990.006 30 x 25 in. Lady in Pink (Portrait of Natalia Frye Art Museum, 1991.006 Podbelskaya), 1912 Still Life with Oranges, 1925 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Albidia, 1928 45 1/2 x 35 in. 30 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. Oil on canvas Frye Art Museum, 1990.005 Frye Art Museum, 1984.003 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Frye Art Museum, 1976.003 6 FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT Opposite, left to right: Nicolai Fechin. Portrait of a Young Woman, 1912. Oil on canvas. 31 3/4 x 28 in. Frye Art Museum, 1990.006. Nicolai Fechin. Still Life with Oranges, 1925. Oil on canvas. 30 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. Frye Art Museum, 1984.003. Right: Nicolai Fechin. Lady in Pink (Portrait of Natalia Podbelskaya), 1912. Oil on canvas. 45 1/2 x 35 in. Frye Art Museum, 1990.005. FRYE ART MUSEUM FY2012 ANNUAL REPORT 7 EXHIBITIONS Exhibitions Annual Attendance 61,014 The Museum was closed for refurbishment April 16–July 14, 2012. Tête-à-tête The Frye Art Museum Founding Isaac Layman—Paradise Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition Visits to Museum February 6, 2010–January 8, 2012 Collection November 19, 2011–January 22, 2012 February 4–April 15, 2012 November 19, 2011–January 8, 2012 Website Tête-à-tête is organized by the The Frye Art Museum Founding Isaac Layman—Paradise is organized Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition is 189,930 Frye Art Museum and initiated Collection is organized by the Frye by the Frye Art Museum and organized by the Frye Art Museum by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. The Art Museum. The exhibition is curated by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. and curated by Frieda Sondland exhibition is funded by the Frye funded by the Frye Foundation with The exhibition is funded by the Frye and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker.
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