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| Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult male and female , male perched on carved ax set in stump, female perched on stump; glass eyes, metal feet, realistic carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '72" on top back of ax handle. | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Pheasant, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/3 life size; perched on driftwood base, stands erect, tail horizontal; glass eyes, painted detail, wire legs and feet. Smeared signature on right side of base, "Gilley." Marked and dated "Ring-necked Pheasant by W. Gilley, 1973, Addie" on underside of base. | ||
| Screech Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Screech Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size adult, gray phase, alighting on driftwood perch attached to oblong, carved wooden base, wings outstretched; glass eyes, metal toenails, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed and marked "Screech Owl made for Addie Gilley, 1978, by Wendell Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Sparrowhawk or Kestrel Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Sparrowhawk or Kestrel Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size adult male on driftwood piece mounted on oblong carved wooden base ; head turned over left shoulder, glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail, signed, dated on base "Gilley '77." Underside of base marked "Sparrow Hawk or Kestrel, Made for Addie Gilley, Wendell Gilley, 1977." Yellow paint on glass eyes, two screw heads visible on underside of base. | ||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 1/4 life size; perched on driftwood mounted on carved wooden base, toes inaccurate: three front one rear instead of two and two; glass eyes, painted wired feet, painted detail. Signed lower right of natural wood: "Gilley." Underside of base marked: "Addie Gilley, Pileated Woodpecker, 1970, W.H. Gilley." | ||
| Wendell Gilley with life-size wild turkey carving Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley with life-size wild turkey carving Wendell Gilley Museum Description: On reverse side of photograph: "Taken by W. L. Brown Summer of 1973" | ||
| Wendell Gilley with Great Horned Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley with Great Horned Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley standing next to a life size great horned owl carving. Also shown are carvings of a Canada goose, woodcock, and an unpainted pair of cormorants. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter asks Gilley to repair one of a pair of herons that was damaged in a move. | |
| Long-tailed Duck, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-tailed Duck, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; swimming, flat bottom; glass eyes, primer coat of paint only. Unsigned. Companion piece no. 81.1.84. | ||
| Bald Eagle Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Decorative eagle looking upwards, wings out stretched horizontally, left talon in relief clutching shield, back has two screws and a hinge attaching banner to wing, screw eye for hanging at top and lower right. Painted in red, white and blue, with flag pole and banner reading "Dum Vivimus Viviamus." After the style of carver John Hailey Bellamy (1836-1914). Marked "Addie Gilley," stamped "Wendell H. Gilley, Southwest Harbor, Maine." [show more] | ||
| Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley exhibits forty carvings plus carvings-in-progress at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in the show "Down East Bird Carvings." | ||
| Bar Harbor Times article, April 8, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bar Harbor Times article, April 8, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This article, titled "Capt. Black: Artist and Surgeon", describes Wendell Gilley's influence on sculptor Paul Black. It also mentions Gilley's Canada goose carved for Harry S. Truman. | ||
| Philadelphia Inquirer article, Oct. 19, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Philadelphia Inquirer article, Oct. 19, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer's society column by Ruth Seltzer describing the preparations for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley. The exhibit was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The photograph accompanying the article shows Barbara Tyson, a trustee of the Academy, helping unpack the carved birds. | |
| Wood Duck, Group Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wood Duck, Group Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size group of four; two males, two females on driftwood branch mounted on smooth oblong wooden base. Underside of base inscribed "Wood Ducks by Wendell Gilley 1976". | ||
| University of Maine at Orono Class of 1925 Golden Anniversary Certificate Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  University of Maine at Orono Class of 1925 Golden Anniversary Certificate Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Certificate marking Wendell Gilley's fifty years as an alumnus of the University of Maine | |||
| Green Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life-size; Adult bird on driftwood base, standing hunched over as if fishing; Glass eyes, metal legs, painted, carved, burned details. Signed "Gilley '76" on underside of base. Marked "Green Heron by Wendell Gilley, 1976." | ||
| Killdeer Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Killdeer Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, body horizontal, head erect, facing forward, right foot raised with only middle toe touching base; glass eyes, carved, burned and painted feather detail, wire legs and feet. Signed "Gilley" on right of base. Marked and dates "Killdeer, Addie Gilley, 1975" on underside of base. | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; perched sideways on twig, mounted on carved wooden base, beak open; glass eyes, wire legs and feet. Signed "Gilley" on right front of base as well as underside of base. Marked "Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult nestled on natural wood base, head pulled down, beak pointing downward, toes protruding; glass eyes, wire toes, painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. Marked and dated "Woodcock, 1971, Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Carving of Great Blue Heron with Trout in Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Carving of Great Blue Heron with Trout in Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Great blue heron with trout shown on table in Gilley's workshop along with other smaller carvings | |||
| Wendell H. Gilley's workbench Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley's workbench Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of Wendell Gilley's workbench in his Southwest Harbor workshop | |||
| Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley standing in his workshop. In front of him is a table holding a saw. Behind him to his right is a carving of a Canada goose. | |||
| Brown pelican Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Brown pelican Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male in breeding plumage depicted on a wooden piling attached to egg-shaped pine base ; cast lead legs and feet, glass eyes ; signed "Gilley '75" on front of base. Underside of base marked: "Hilda and Hulda Bragdon, 1975" and signed "by Wendell Gilley" | ||
| Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on burl base, standing on right leg, left leg raised, slips into and out of base on bolt ; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed on belly, Wild Turkey by Wendell Gilley, 1972. Marked "by W.H. Gilley, made for Addie Gilley, 1972" on side of base. | ||
| Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Page from an unknown publication announcing Gilley's exhibit of bird carvings at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |