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Frye Art Museum

Expert Reviews of Frye Art Museum

Citysearch | The city's haven for representational landscape and portrait work.

The Frye's modernistic facade, where visitors dawdle alongside a burbling reflective pool, belies the classical interior. Founders Charles and Emma Frye still dominate from their larger-than-life portraits, as...
citysearch.com - expert review - 07/14/2004
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User Reviews of Frye Art Museum

Very fine private art museum open free to the public

Charming private museum with pretensions in inverse proportion to the uniqueness of its programming...
judysbook.com - user review - 06/10/2007
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Very strange exhibit

This is a nice free museum with a very small and ecclectic collection mostly German painters who worked between 1850 and 1915. However, there was a special exhibit on a painter named Darger, which is very...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/26/2006
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A Hidden Tresure

I came upon the Frye Museum by accident. I was happened to walk by it on a day that it had already closed. I had no idea that it was even in that area and Ive lived near by for over a year. I finally got a...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/22/2006
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Wonderful art museum, free

Rooms of modern paintings and renaissance paintings, no admission fee to get in, and the security gu...
judysbook.com - user review - 09/16/2005
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Great Shows, Free Art, Cool Space

A nice mid-sized museum, in an architecturally interesting space. For when you have an hour or so to...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/26/2005
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Grand Legacy

The Frye is a gift to the people of Seattle. The museum has a clear idea of what is trying to do and is refreshingly diverse at the same time. The permanent collection is really a jumping off...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/18/2002
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Great Art, and it's FREE!

This is a beautiful little museum. I have only been here once, a couple of years ago and was impressed by their special exhibit (I think it was English art) and their permanent collection. It's the perfect...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2002
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What are you waiting for?

If you haven't been there, go. It's useless for this reviewer to attmept describing the museo in his neighborhood. Just get there, and you'll see why (in a good sense, of course). I think Museums are not to be...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/23/2002
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