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In Dreaming the Emerald City two foundational collections of Seattle are brought together for the first time: the collections of Charles and Emma Frye and of Horace C. Henry. The Fryes and Henry collected art during roughly the same period, from the 1890s to the 1920s, and they cemented their legacies by keeping their collections in Seattle. In 1927 the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington became the state鈥檚 first public art museum, and the Frye Art Museum, named after both Charles and Emma, opened to the public in 1952 as the city鈥檚 first free museum. The exhibition compares the Fryes鈥� and Henry鈥檚 collecting directions: these collectors shared an interest in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art, but Henry focused on American and French paintings and the Fryes primarily collected German and Austrian art. Despite their different foci, the collections have some artists in common, including William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825鈥�1905), Louis-Gabriel-Eugene Isabey (1803鈥�86), Eugene Louis Boudin (1824鈥�98), and Childe Hassam (1859鈥�1935). No evidence suggests that competitiveness between the collectors drove their buying decisions; comparable purchases by the Fryes and Henry probably resulted from affordability, market availability, and collecting trends.