Dale Chihuly - the Exhibition December 11, 2008

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.