Parkman+Coupe

Date: 1988
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Artist: **Dan Dailey** Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1947

Medium: blown, sandblasted, and acid-polished glass with patinated bronze rings Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 10 x 10 in. (43.8 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman

Accession: 1999.89.5

High Resolution Image || Date: 1988
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1999/1999.89.6_2a.jpg&max=460 width="192" height="244" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=41402"]] || Title: **Parkman Coupe Study**

Artist: **Dan Dailey** Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1947

Medium: watercolor and ink on paper Dimensions: 23 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (60.6 x 47.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman

Accession: 1999.89.6

High Resolution Image || Paul and Elmerina Parkman commissioned //Parkman Coupe// after viewing the //Pasteur Coupe//, a commemorative vase presented to Louis Pasteur. //Parkman Coupe// commemorates Dr. Paul Parkman’s contribution to the first successful vaccine against rubella, or German measles. Here, Dr. Parkman holds a flask of the vaccine at the moment of discovery as his colleague Dr. Henry M. Meyer vaccinates a child. Inscribed below the rim is part of a letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson: “Few men. . . directly. . . advance human welfare, save precious lives and bring new hope to the world.”
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Dan Dailey currently maintains his own studio in Kensington, New Hampshire and is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art where he founded the Glass Department in 1973. He has taught at numerous glass programs including RISD, Pilchuck, and Haystack and has given lectures throughout the USA, Europe, and Japan. He has been an independent artist/designer for Cristallerie Daum, France for the past 20 years, and has worked for Fenton Art Glass Co., Steuben Glass, and other companies. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy where he worked at the Venini glass factory on the island of Murano. He has received fellowships from both the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and an Honorary Lifetime membership to the Glass Art Society. In 2000, he was honored with the Libensky Award, the Artist Series release, by Chateau Ste. Michelle Vineyards & Winery.
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Since 1971 he has participated in over 250 group, juried, and invitational exhibits and has had numerous one-person museum and gallery exhibits including a major retrospective at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. He has completed more than 50 architectural commissions for corporate headquarters, hospitals, municipalities, a county courthouse and private residences. These commissions consist of large cast glass murals, bronze and glass lamps, sculptural tables, a bronze stair railing, exterior residential doors, mosaic framed mirrors, a large scale drawing, and a complete dining room (walls, floor, doors, ceiling, table, chairs, lamps, a chandelier, wall sconces, and console). His work is represented in 42 museum collections in the USA, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Internationally renowned as one of the most celebrated "stars" in the art glass world, Dan Dailey has been heralded as an accomplished designer, a studio glass pioneer and an influential teacher. However, it is art critic and historian Dan Klein's characterization of him as a "brilliant raconteur" that most aptly describes the artist, whose portfolio of work spans more than three decades.

"If there is one common thread, it's that every piece tells a story," Dailey says. "I like to engage the viewer and cause a reaction. Most of my work tries to communicate an idea."

An opportunity to experiment with glass blowing while attending Philadelphia College of Art led Dailey to choose this elusive material as his vehicle of expression." I'd tried other media, but glass was so different from wood or clay that it could only be described as magical," he fondly recalls. "No other material comes to life with light like glass. Color, transparency, translucency are all only accommodated through that one medium."

Dailey's long involvement in the glass industry has influenced the techniques and processes he has perfected over the years. Upon graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a master's degree in 1972, Dailey received a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, where he worked at the Venini glass factory on the island of Murano. Thereafter, he went to work for a glass factory in West Virginia. Throughout the past 20 years, he has also worked as an independent artist/designer for Cristallerie Daum in France.

Dailey's repertoire in glass is as diverse and refined as his creations. His pieces often combine varying techniques and materials, including blown glass and metalwork, with acid-polished, sandblasted or patinated details. Often inspired by the streamlined elegance of the Art Deco period, his pieces portray people and animals in scenes that are beautiful, whimsical and surreal in their stylized adaptations,

"There's a definite Art Deco muse in my work," Dailey admits. "I love the style and quality the period evokes — that deliberate attempt to create a feeling of elegance and luxury that is modern and fresh, yet references history as well."

Dan Dailey - Connections Video
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Artist Biography SAAM Collections Pages
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