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| Herring Gull, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Two adult birds on a roughly "J" shaped driftwood base ; glass eyes ; cast lead legs and feet. Signed "Gilley" on right side of driftwood base below the sitting gull ; inscribed "Made for Hilda - Hulda Bragdon 1972" on underside of base. | ||
| Goldfinch pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Goldfinch pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One marked "Made for Hilda Bragdon by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. The other marked "Made for Hulda Bragdon by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. Both dated 1970. | ||
| Little Blue Herons Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Little Blue Herons Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Juvenile standing with wings raised on branch, adult standing on base ; signed "Gilley" on right rear corner of base ; no date | ||
| Pintail Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pintail Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male, body held horizontal and low with tail fanned and pin arched upward ; head fully outstretched, twisted upward and to the right ; wire legs and metal webbed feet ; glass eyes ; signed "Gilley '61" on right rear side of base | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male sitting in the crotch of a Y shaped twig mount, body facing forward but head turned completely to the left ; glass eyes ; swirled driftwood root base. Signed "Gilley" and dated '71 on underside of base. Appears to have been overmarked '72 | ||
| Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male Eastern bluebird ; ovoid pine base with multi-twigged branch rising from off-center; narrow-bodied bird sits on a lower twig, head turned to left and slightly raised ; glass eyes, metal feet, no visible legs. Inscribed: "Bluebird by Wendell Gilley for Harold and Gladys Townsend Xmas 1976" on underside of base | ||
| House Wren Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  House Wren Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult bird balances on the front face of burl base with wire legs and toes with talons clutching downward ; deeply arched back with vertical tail and bill pointing almost to sky. Glass eyes. Signed "Gilley/'78" on top edge of base. Underside of base marked "House Wren 1978, #34" and stamped "Wendell H. Gilley". | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Smooth oval pine disc base with gnarled driftwood root ; midway up the driftwood is mounted the bird, carved in characteristic seed-opening position with tail braced downward and bill pointed at ground ; glass eyes, wire legs, and metal feet grasping "branch." Signed "Gilley" on top edge of base. No date | |||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult woodcock with feet stretching downward over face of the domed burl base ; head erect facing straight ahead with long bill pointed downward ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Signed "Gilley '80" on right side of base ; Marked "Woodcock by W.H. Gilley 1980" on underside of base. | ||
| Herring Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum Description: L-shaped driftwood branch serves as base for three gulls, positioned (left to right) taking off, raising wings, standing erect ; birds show totally different bill carvings, and the similar but minutely different paint indicates a transitional period (1940's?); unsigned | |||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult in swimming position, head erect on slightly bent neck facing straight forward; glass eyes ; signed "Gilley 72" on underside where felt is cut away | ||
| Baldpate, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Baldpate, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Now known as American Wigeon ; marked "Baldpate '74, #28" on underside of base ; humped "clamshell" base is a driftwood burl ; wire legs and metal feet with tiny talons; signed "Gilley" on left front of base | ||
| Bluebird, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bluebird, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male and female mounted on pine and twig base, the lower bird (female) in downward crouching position, the male perched on lower fork of twig ; wire legs and metal feet, glass eyes ; signed "Gilley" on carved base. | |||
| Hermit Thrush Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Hermit Thrush Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Glass eyes ; wire and metal feet and legs ; feet are atop a "stump" of a small branch mounted in turn on a carved pine base. Underside of base marked "Hermit Thrush by Wendell Gilley 1977. | ||
| Canvasback Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canvasback Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Canvasback drake in swimming position, adult plumage, scant carved detail ; completely withdrawn head, turned slightly to the right. Signed "by W. H. Gilley 1971" | ||
| Herring Gull on Red Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull on Red Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Gull in adult plumage, head erect and straight ahead, wing tips balanced high over tail, feet braced on a navigational buoy called a red nun. Glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Buoy painted with white Arabic numeral "4". Carved oval pine base, gouge-carved and painted to resemble sea water. No date visible. | |||
| Mourning Dove Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mourning Dove Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Resting bird, head slightly tucked, bill downwards, tail swept up and wing tips cropped; minimal carved detail, incised wings ; glass eyes, metal legs and feet with talons clutching downward on driftwood burl base. Signed "Gilley" on top of base, lower left; no date on piece but approximately 1948. | ||
| Canvasback, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canvasback, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Decorative decoy depicting an adult canvasback drake. Signed W.H. Gilley, dated 1974. Inscribed "Made for Robert Kurtz" | ||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Herring gull in adult plumage, standing at ease on wire legs, feet painted onto the base. Signed "by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base | ||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Herring gull in adult plumage, taking off from a smooth burl driftwood base ; carved with minimum of detail; outside wing edges notched to suggest feathers; painted eyes, bill, legs and feet. W.H.G. marked on underside of base ; no date on piece but probably from the 1940s | ||
| Wood Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Black-backed Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult, standing on mesquite base, tail erect ; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned, and painted detail ; carved circa 1977, painted and completed winter, 1981. Signed "Gilley" with artist's branding iron on flat side of base. Companion piece 81.1.175. | ||
| Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life-size adult "running" on mesquite base ; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail ; carved circa 1977, painted and completed winter 1981. Unsigned. Companion piece 81.1.174. | ||
| Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked: "Puffin by W. H. Gilley " ; signature "Gilley" burned into bottom of base |
