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historical notes
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Charles H. Frye and his wife, Emma, were art collectors, patrons, philanthropists, founders of the Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington and owners of a local meatpacking plant (Frye & Company). Two hundred and thirty-two paintings from their personal collection became the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum.
The Frye collection included paintings by late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European and American art with a concentration in both German and French paintings.
The collection consisted of work by, among others, Fritz Baer, Leon Barillot, Eugene-Louis Boudin, William A Bouguereau, Anton Braith, Francois Cachoud, Franz von Defregger, Hans Dahl, Carl Ebert, Anselm Feuerbach, Arnold Gorter, Frederick Childe Hassam, Karl Heffner, Adolf Hengeler, Franz Xaver Hoch, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Ludwig Knaus, Franz von Lenbach, Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max, Henry Raschen, Leopold Schmutzler, Adolf Schreyer, Otto Strutzel, Franz von Stuck, Emile Van Marcke, William Watson, Ludwig Willroider, Heinrich von Zügel and Ludwig Zumbusch.
In 1909, the Frye’s lent one of their paintings, by Leon Perrault’s Marguerite, to Seattle’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
The Frye’s kept their collection at home and in their business office and in 1943 an airplane crashed into the Frye headquarters resulting in a fire which damaged the plant and destroyed paintings, business and archival records relating to the art collection.
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