In 2002, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art inaugurated its new home in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center with an exhibition of glass and drawings by Dale Chihuly. Bolstered by enormous public support, the Museum purchased all 18 installations in the exhibition, which included works from Chihuly’s best–known series and was anchored by the fifty-five-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum’s atrium.

About the Collection:
• Originally titled Dale Chihuly: An Inaugural Exhibition
• Reinstalled on Museum’s third floor on April 1, 2004, after 32 days of extensive set building and preparation
• Purchased in June of 2004
• Most comprehensive collection of Chihuly glass in the world.

The Collection includes:
• 1,500 pieces of hand-blown glass
• 18 glass installations, including walls, ceiling, cases, and groupings
• Sixty 4’ x 8’ sheets of black Plexiglas
• 2 fishing boats imported from Finland
• 3 white bark silver maple logs
• Ten 12-inch high stages (platforms)
• 28 moveable walls
• 3 enclosed cases, containing Seaform sets
• 226 sq. ft. shatter proof glass ceiling for 40 ft. long Persian Ceiling display
• 290 light fixtures

Dale Chihuly: The Collection—18 glass installations
• Ancestor White Seaforms set with Lava Black Lip Wraps
• Jerusalem Cylinders
• Ikebana
• Putti with Birds
• Macchia Forest
• Confetti Anemone Wall
• Tigerlilies
• Autumn Gold Persian Wall
• Red and Black Seal Pups
• Orange Basket Forest
• Persian Seaform Ceiling
• Ikebana Double Ender and Rowboat with Floats
• Neodymium Spears
• Fourteen set pieces including bowls, Macchia, basket sets, Seaforms, and Persians
• Twilight in Aurora Silver Persian set
• Baronet Blue Basket with Iron Black Lip Wraps
• Dreamy Blue Basket set with Obsidian Lip Wraps
• Waterford Crystal Chandelier, located in the theater lobby
• Drawings
o Ikebana drawing on Plexiglas
o Chandelier Quad Drawing
o Three Nuutajärvi Drawings
o Chihuly Over Venice Drawing
o Two Chandelier Doppio Drawings
o Float Quad Drawing

Website: http://www.okcmoa.com/exhibitions/dalechihuly-thecollection

Categories: Fine Arts