Dale Chihuly: The Exhibition
Third Floor, Permanent Installation
In 2002, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art inaugurated its new home at 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 the entire exhibition, which includes works from Chihuly’s best–known series and is anchored by the fifty-five-foot Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower in the Museum’s atrium.
About the Exhibition:
• Originally titled Dale Chihuly: An Inaugural Exhbition
• Reinstalled on Museum’s third floor on April 1, 2004, after 32 days of extensive set building and preparation
• Purchased in June of 2004
• Renamed Dale Chihuly: The Exhibition
• Most comprehensive collection of Chihuly glass in the world.
The Exhibition 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 Exhibition—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
