Frye Art Museum

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The Frye Art Museum is an art museum located on Seattle, Washington, USA's First Hill. The museum emphasizes painting and sculpture from the nineteenth century to the present. Its holdings originate in the private collection of Charles (1858-1940) and Emma (d. 1934) Frye. Charles, a local businessman, set aside money in his will for the creation of a free art museum to house the Fryes' collection of over 230 paintings. The museum opened to the public in 1952.

The museum's permanent collection reflects Charles Frye's relatively conservative artistic tastes, and the museum is dedicated specifically to representational art. However, exhibits in recent years have been anything but artistically conservative. Exhibits in 2004 and 2005 have included an exhibit of Mark Ryden's often disturbing images of childhood, and "The Retrofuturistic World of NSK"; the museum has also repeatedly redeployed its permanent collection, experimenting with exhibiting it in different arrangements.