Untitled Blanket Cylinder

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Untitled Blanket Cylinder

Artist Dale Chihuly (American, born 1941)

Date1975

DimensionsH: 10 in. (27.9 cm); Diam: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

MediumBlown glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.90

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 2

Label TextThe decoration on Dale Chihuly’s series of cylinder vessels was made through an ongoing collaboration with Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick (see a similar cylinder work by them in this case). The patterns represented on this and the adjacent cylinder integrate Chihuly’s interest in Native American textiles.Exhibition HistoryToledo 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. 7, p. 31, cat. no. 14, p. 193.

Toledo Museum of Art, Chihuly Toledo!, September 17, 2009-February 7, 2010.

Toledo Museum of Art, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, June 14-September 9, 2012.