Dale Chihuly

Chihuly’s artistic embrace of Navajo blankets, Northwest Coast baskets, and Pueblo pottery…can be viewed within a broader context in which Native American culture and politics entered the consciousness (and conscience) of mainstream EuroAmerican society. —Timothy Anglin Burgard

Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941)
Navajo Blanket Cylinder (Serape Style 1865)
With the assistance of Kate Elliott (American, b. 1950)
United States, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975
Blown glass, assembled thread drawing picked up while hot
H. 26 cm, Diam. 11.6 cm
2007.4.142, gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family
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