Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- While teaching at the American Indian School in Santa Fe, Dale Chihuly hit upon the idea of using motifs from Indian trade blankets. He made drawings from glass threads, then picked them up with the molten “gather” of glass at the end of his blowpipe. In this series, Chihuly is primarily concerned with the surface of the glass, suspending patterns of colored threads within simple forms.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Dale Chihuly, born Tacoma, WA 1941
- Date
- 1984
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- blown glass
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 x 8 x 8 1/2 in. (31.8 x 20.3 x 21.6 cm)
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Glass
- Crafts
