SEATTLE, WA.- Picturing a Passion presents historical photographs of the Frye Founding Collection of late-19th- and early-20th-century paintings as it was displayed in the Seattle home of Charles Frye (1858–1940) and his wife Emma (1860–1934). The exhibition of twenty-three black-and-white photographs is on view Jan. 15–March 6. 2011. Museum founders Charles and Emma Frye moved from an Iowa farming community to Seattle in 1888, and soon established meatpacking, cattle ranching and agricultural businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The couple may have been inspired to collect art after attending the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sixteen years later, they lent one of their paintings, Leon Perrault’s Marguerite, to Seattle’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. During their first trip to Europe in the early summer of 1914, the Fryes acquired German, Dutch and a few French