Dale Chihuly Original Art Glass Sculpture "Starlight Seaform Macchia"

Item Details

A Dale Chihuly original art glass sculpture. This piece from his Starlight Seaform Macchia series features a midnight blue exterior with specks and lines though out the exterior of this hand blown piece. The interior is a deep orange that fades to a clear the base to revealing a light green spiral. The wavy lip is accented by yellow. This piece is accompany by a Plexiglas vitrine with black base. Artist’s signature etched on the bottom center and numbered PP04.

Dale Patrick Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington and currently works and lives within the same state. He found an interest in glass while studying interior design and upon graduating in 1965 attended the first glass program in the country at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies, established a glass program and taught for more than ten years at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). It was in the late 1960s while studying at the Veni glass factory in Venice, Italy through a Fulbright Fellowship that Chihuly observed the team approach to blowing glass; a method that the artist still practices. Noted accomplishments are many and include: co-founded the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State in 1971; works that are included in over 200 museum collections worldwide; numerous honors and awards that include, but are not limited to, twelve honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; created more than a dozen well-known series of works; and many more.

Dimensions

of display box
piece measures approximately 10" W x 7.5" D x 5"

Item #

16COL116-001