Dan Dailey

Dan Dailey
Born	February 4, 1947
Nationality	American
Field	Sculpture, Site Specific, Installation, Drawing
Movement	Modernism, Materialism
Training	'Philadelphia College of Art. Rhode Island School of Design
Awards	Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Venice, Italy, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - Glass, Libensky Award, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pilchuck Silver Star Alumni Award, UArts

Dan Dailey, born in Philadelphia in 1947, is an artist who, with the support of a team of artists and crafts people, creates sculptures and functional objects in glass and metal.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 1960s 1.2 1970s 1.3 1980s 1.4 1990s 1.5 2000 on 2 Public collections 2.1 USA 2.2 Australia 2.3 Canada 2.4 France 2.5 Germany 2.6 Japan 2.7 Switzerland 3 Gallery 4 References

Biography

Dan Dailey's career in glass has spanned more than 40 years. Emerging from the Studio Glass movement initiated by Harvey Littleton, Dailey's work has branched out from the mainstream by the incorporation of metal into many of the sculptures. Additionally, he has worked with several glass companies, in particular as an independent artist/ designer for Crisallerie Daum, France for more than twenty years. He has taught at many glass programs and is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art where he founded the glass program. Since 1971, Dailey's work has been featured in more than 90 exhibitions and included in over 300 juried or invitational group shows.

1960s

Dailey encountered glass as an artists' medium when helping construct a small glass blowing studio at the Philadelphia College of Art with Roland Jahn, a ceramics teacher at the college. From building basic equipment and observing processes, Dailey soon began working with glass.

1970s

In 1970 Dailey received a teaching fellowship at Rhode Island School of Design, (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island where well-known glass artist, Dale Chihuly, was teaching at the time. Dailey became Chihuly’s first graduate student. Along with other students, Dailey assisted in building the RISD glass studio and began to develop concepts for illuminated sculpture.

Series from the 1960s and '70s^[1]

Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Engraved	1972–75	24
“M”	1975–76	3
Nail Vases	1976	12
“Skagit”	1977	11
Wire Glass	1978	9
City Vases	1979	14
Oceanic Vases	1979	12
Scenic Vases	1979–80	22
Distorted Vessels	1979–82	19
Vitrolite Wall Reliefs	1979–90	30

1972-73 Venini Factory, Murano, Italy. Fulbright Hays Fellowship
In 1972 Dailey received a Fulbright Hayes Felowship and was invited by Ludovico Diaz di Santillana, the director and owner of the Venini Factory in Murano, Italy, to work as an independent artist/designer. Dailey created a series of blown glass and brass sculptural lamps while in residence at the factory. This industrial experience became a model for Dailey’s future work in several glass factories later in his career.

1973-85 Massachusetts College of Art and Design , Boston, MA. Founder and Head of the Glass Program.
In 1973 Dailey began teaching glass and ceramics at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, in Boston. The school was without facilities for glass and with the experience that marked the beginning of his career with glass, Dailey built the studio and equipment with the assistance of several students. Dailey also taught from 1985 to 2007, he often taught the introductory glassblowing class to beginner students who were unaware of his success as an artist. He is notably humble and very generous with students.

Dailey continued to create illuminated sculpture, vase forms and began to develop Vitrolite wall reliefs.

In 1975 Dailey taught at Pilchuck Glass School^[2] in Stanwood, Washington for the first time.

1976 Cristallierie Cristallerie Daum, Paris and Nancy, France. Independent Artist/Designer: 7 editioned works between 1978-2003.

Cafe 1979, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY.

In 1976 Dailey was invited by Jacques Daum, nephew of August Daum, to work as an independent artist at Cristallerie Daum in Nancy, France. Between 1978 and 2003 he produced 7 editioned pate de verre sculptures. This experience created a working relationship that continues today.

The numerous works created at Cristallerie Daum were produced as limited edition, pate de verre works. Dailey is one of three Americans to have worked with Daum and holds the longest standing relationship of any artist after 32 years of work with the company. Other artists who have worked with Daum include: Salvador Dali, Fernand Leger, Jean-Michel Folon, Cesar, Christian Poincignon, as well as many others.

Dailey’s editioned works include: Le Vent, Le Joyeau, L’Eau, Le Vin, Le Soleil, and La Dame^[3].

Along with the limited editions, Daum melted selected colors of crystal for Dailey’s personal use. From 1987 to 1990, with the assistance of Mark Weiner, three Daum crystal vase series were produced.

1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship–Glass.

1980s

Sick as a Dog 1984, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

1980 Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship–Glass.

1980-85 MIT
In 1980 Dailey received a fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge where he co-taught the class Glass, Gas and Electricity with German artist, Otto Piene. This experimental sculpture class emphasized and explored the phenomenon of illumination.

In conjunction with the MIT Research Lab for Electronics, Dailey further studied the qualities of light and glass.

1984-85 Steuben Glass, Corning, New York. Independent Artist/Designer

In 1984 Dailey produced a suite of designs for Steuben Glass in Corning, New York. At the request of Steuben, Dailey produced sports themed designs to be produced on vases with one design Ice Dancers being produced.

Series from the 1960s and '70s^[1]

Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Head Vases	1980	21
Tripod Vessels	1980–81	23
People & Animal Vases	1981–82	11
Fish Vases	1981	24
Bird Vases	1982	28
Travel Vases	1982	9
Constructed Heads & Busts	1982–87	20
Automobile Vases	1983	20
People Holding Animals	1983	3
Constructed Animals	1983–95	16
Science Fiction Vases	1984–85	24
Portrait Vases	1986	18
Character Heads	1988–89	20
Nature Vases	1988	10
Face Vases	1988–97	196
Dailey/Tagliapietra Vases	1989–90	54
Mythology Head Vases	1989–90	22
Male/Female Figurative Vases	1989–94	38

1984-85 Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV. Independent Artist/Designer
In 1985 Dailey began working with Fenton Art Glass Company in Williamstown, West Virginia, to produce cast glass components of a low relief mural. Over a period of 20 years, Dailey made 26 large scale murals, one of which was 16 feet by 24 feet, weighing over 4,000 pounds.

With numerous assistants, Dailey also blew glass to create various works, notably, the Science Fiction Series, 1985-86.

1987 Commission: Orbit. Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
In 1987 Henry Geldzahler, Milton Glaser, and Hugh Hardy selected Dailey to make a cast glass relief mural titled Orbit, for The Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The mural is a 15 foot by 8 foot abstract representation of orbiting planets and artistic debris, illuminated from behind with changing colors coordinated with the mood lighting of the dining/dancing space.
Dailey also created wall sconces for various locations around The Rainbow Room complex.

1987 Solo exhibition: Dan Dailey, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Henry Geldzahler wrote an essay for the catalog including: Dan Dailey’s achievement is in the seamless marriage he effects in his work in every medium between the idiosyncratic convolutions of his inner landscape and the classic harmony and lucidity of the great tradition in glass, of whom Daum, Nancy and Lalique are giants. Dailey’s work joins in that tradition, but with a contemporary spin that causes the viewer to smile in complicity.^[4]

1987 Retrospective Exhibition of Dan Dailey’s work, curated by Eleni Cocordas at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery. The exhibition consisted of fifty works including: illuminated sculpture, Vitrolite wall reliefs, vases, and pastel drawings.

1989 Masters Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America.

1990s

Series from the 1960s and '70s^[1]

Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Characters from Literature	1990	2
Mask Vases	1990	5
Abstract Head Vases	1990–94	80
Figurative Lamps	1990–ongoing	111
Dailey/Tagliapietra Mini Vases	1992–93	53
Animal Vessels	1992–98	50
Boca Palm Vases	1993	26
Skyscraper New York Vases	1993–94	10
Art Deco Building Vases	1995	5
Circus Vases	1995–ongoing	134

1993 Collections: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris Dailey work titled The Doctor from 1988 is accepted into their permanent collection

1994 Commission: Boca Palms 26 special edition vases commissioned by the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

1998 Invited Artist: Waterford Crystal, Kilbarry, Ireland.
Dailey was invited to work as an independent artist by Waterford Crystal, Kilbarry, Ireland, in 1998.

Dailey visited three times between 1998-1999 to create chandeliers, wall sconces, and seven engraved vases, using particular processes unique to the history and specialty of Waterford Crystal.

1998 Awards:
Fellow of the American Craft Council, ACC College of Fellows.
Outstanding Achievement in Glass, UrbanGlass.
Honorary Lifetime Membership Award, Glass Arts Society.

2000 on

Series from the 1960s and '70s^[1]

Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Title	Dates	No. of pieces
Fabricated Music	2001- ongoing
Individuals	2004–ongoing	15

2000 Libensky Award, Chateau Ste.Michelle Vineyards & Winery.

2001 Awards:
The President’s Distinguished Artist Award, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Masters of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance.
Art of Liberty Award, National LibertyMuseum, Philadelphia, PA

2004 Commission: Tribute Chandelier, Providence Performing Arts Center, Providence RI

2007 Publication: Glassigator, written and illustrated by Dan Dailey and Allison MacNeil Dailey in conjunction with the Toledo Museum of Art.

The Toledo Museum of Art, a museum whose major focus is on glass, asked Dailey to create a children's book explaining and illustrating the process of glassblowing. Dailey collaborated with Allison Dailey, who developed the characters and executed all of the final watercolor drawings for the book. The book is based on the making of a particular vase titled Alligator, from Dailey's Animal Vase series begun in 1992.

2007 Publication: Dan Dailey ^[1] a 384 page volume on Dailey's work is published in 2007 by Harry N. Abrams.
The book, a comprehensive view of Dailey's work from 1968 to 2007 includes 460 illustrations, 400 full color images, and was designed and edited by Joe Rapone. Writing and essays are by: Milton Glaser, Tina Oldknow, and William Warmus.

2007 The Silver Star Alumni Award, College of Art and Design at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008-09 Residency: G.A.P.P Glass Residency (Guest Artist Pavilion Project) Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.
Dailey was asked to be a part of the G.A.P.P. The focus of the residency was to study and respond to the museum's collection with a focus on landscape and paintings. Dailey's glass mural project for the museum was begun in 2008 and is now in progress.

2009 Teaching: Materialism lecture series Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Dailey is conducting a series of artist interviews in collaboration with Joe Rapone whose subject matter explores the notion of Materialism, a term that includes a rethinking of movements of the 1970s, specifically, the Studio Craft Movement.

Public collections

Data as of end 2006 ^[1]

USA

Clown Vamps 1999, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY.

• California
  • LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Colorado
  • Town of Vail, CO
• Connecticut
  • Connecticut Appellate Court, Hartford, CT
  • Johnson-Horsfall Laboratory, New Haven, CT
• Florida
  • Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
• Georgia
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
• Illinois
  • Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL

Nude Walking in Tall Grass 1993, Museum of Fine Art Boston, MA

• Indianapolis
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
• Kentucky
  • The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
• Massachusetts
  • The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • Northern Essex County Courthouse, Newburyport, MA
• Michigan
  • The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• Minnesota
  • Mayo Clinic, Rocheseter, MN
• New Hampshire
  • Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

Imposter 2006 Dailey Archive

• New Jersey
  • Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
  • Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
  • Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
• New York
  • 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
  • Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
  • Greatest Bar on Earth, Windows on the World Corp, One World Trade Center Towers, New York, NY (Destroyed on September 11, 2001)
  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • The JPMorgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
  • Rockefeller Center Corp., New York, NY
  • Visions, New York, NY
• North Carolina
  • Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
• Ohio
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
  • Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
• Pennsylvania
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Rhode Island
  • Providence Performing Arts Center, Providence, RI
• Tennessee
  • Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
• Texas
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
• Washington
  • The Pilchuck Glass Collection at City Centre and US Bank Centre, Seattle, WA
• Washington DC
  • Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Link to items in Renwick Gallery collection
• West Virginia
  • Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
• Wisconsin
  • Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Canada

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario

France

Les Archives de la Cristallerie Daum, Nancy and Paris, France

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France

Germany

Darmstatt Museum, Darmstatt, W. Germany

Kestner Museum, Hannover, W. Germany

Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama City, Japan

Yokohama Museum, Japan

Switzerland

Musee de Design et d’arts Appliques Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gallery

Pistachio Lamp 1972 Private Collection	Stars and Skyline 1980 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY	Anguish 1983 Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI	Romance1987 Huntington Museum of Art Huntington, WV
Hawk & Dove Man 1995 Currier Museum of Art Manchester, NH	The Doctor 1988 Louvre Museum Paris, France	Fantasy 1988 LA County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA	Opaque 1991 Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, OB, Canada
Jest 1992 Dailey Archive	Alligator 1995 Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY	Gray Mandril 1993 Dayton Art Institute Dayton, OH	Le Soleil 2003 Cristallerie Daum Edition
Dance of Light 1999 Private Collection	Tribute 2003 Providence Performing Arts Center Providence, RI	Splendid 2006 Private Collection	Swiveler 2009 Edition 3/7

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} [Dan Dailey by William Warmus, Milton Glaser, Tina Oldknow Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (March 1, 2007) ISBN 0810993198 ISBN 978-0810993198]
2. ^ Pilchuck: A Glass School by Tina Oldknow 1996 ISBN 0-295-97559-8
3. ^ Glass: An Artist's Medium by Lucartha Kohler 1998 ISBN 0-8743-604-x
4. ^ 1987 exhibition catalogue titled: Dan Dailey: Simple Complexities in Drawings and Glass 1972-1987 Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.