Dale Chihuly is the most famous and influential artist working in glass today. For more than four decades he has been the leading figure in this unique art form fusing traditional craft with fine art fabrication with the natural environment. Now in his first major San Francisco exhibition Chihuly displays a vast array of artworks from many of his signature series (including the Baskets Seaforms Persians Venetians and more) at both the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. A career-spanning biographical essay by curator Timothy Anglin Burgard and stunning color photography of the works will captivate Chihuly's myriad fansóboth new and old.

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