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The Chef

Artist Daniel Owen Dailey American, born 1947

Date1988

Dimensions18 x 11 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.

MediumColorless and black glass, blown, sand-blasted, and acid-polished; bronze

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.117

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesArtScene, May 1988, p. 11 (ill.).

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 207-208, repr. (col.) p. 208.

Rapone, Joe, ed., Dan Dailey, New York, Abrams, 2007, repr. p. 134 (col.) and 132-33 (det. col.).

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, Kurland/Summers Gallery, Dan Dailey, 1988.

Toledo Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, 1993-1995, pl. 12, p. 37, cat. no. 20, p. 194.

Label TextWhile studying ceramics at Philadelphia College of Art, Dailey received a grant to set up a glass studio, which at the time required building most of the equipment. This project provided Dailey with a critical exposure to glassworking, and soon he was “hooked on glass; no going back.” After college, Dailey spent some time drawing cartoons for Zap Comics. His graphic ability helped him to capture in efficient line and form the “oddities” of human nature, as seen in his bold, but simple, approach to the human head in The Chef. The head-shaped vessel form harks back to ancient Mediterranean examples (see also Robert Arneson’s Laughing Vase in this gallery).