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historical notes
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Emma Dorothea Lamp Frye and her husband, Charles, were art collectors, patrons, philanthropists, founders of the Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington, and owners of a local meatpacking plant (Frye & Company).
Two hundred thirty-two paintings from their collection became the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum. In addition, the Frye collection included pictures of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European and American art with a concentration of 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 until 1943, when an airplane crashed into the Frye headquarters resulting in a fire that damaged the plant, destroyed paintings, and business and archival records relating to the art collection.
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