Dale Chihuly (Born 1941) American, Offset Lithograph and Art Book. The lithograph is titled "Two Baskets" and is signed in the plate bottom left, held in a pinkish-red frame. The book is "Chihuly Projects," a hardcover art coffee table book of his work with contributions by Barbara Rose and Dale M. Lanzone, published in 2000. 

Overall Size: 33 x 25 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 32 x 24 1/2 in. 

Dale Chihuly (born 1941) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur who is a pivotal figure in the contemporary art glass movement. Following the deaths of his father and only sibling, he found purpose in art and enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he discovered glass and graduated with a BA in interior design, receiving a full scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study under Harvey Littleton, who had established the first glass program in the United States. Chihuly later earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Venice, where he learned the team approach to glassblowing, and in 1971 he co-founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington, which became a major center for glass art. After a car accident in 1976 left him blind in one eye and a dislocated shoulder in 1979 prevented him from holding a glassblowing pipe, he hired a team to execute his designs, and with his majestic hair and signature eyepatch Chihuly became one of the most recognizable “celebrity artists” of his generation, helping to shape the late 20th Century view of artists as “rock stars” and entrepreneurs. His groundbreaking 2006 copyright infringement lawsuit against a former employee, Bryan Rubino, set international precedents for interpreting a master’s influence on a student’s art style, and Chihuly’s vibrant, large-scale installations and sculptures are now displayed in over 200 museums and public collections worldwide, including the Chihuly Gardens in Seattle.

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