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You searched for: Date: 1980sSubject: NatureSubject: Animals
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Guthe - Elizabeth Corey Guthe
  • 1984
Description:
Published: Southwest Harbor, Maine : Publisher's Northeast. Inscription to Nina Gormley by the author on title page.
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley 82" on underside of base
Woodcock
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981
Woodcock
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Life size; adult standing upright on driftwood base, beak down; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. Marked "Woodcock, Gilley" on underside.
King Eider
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981
King Eider
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
King Eider on post ; painted sheet metal feet ; "Gilley" signature and date engraved on bottom of bird ; bird detaches from post
Pine Grosbeak, Female
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Pine Grosbeak, Female
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base below bird's left wing. Gilley's stamp on bottom of base
Common Eider, Male
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1980 c
Common Eider, Male
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
One of five eiders Wendell Gilley wanted to make for the museum at the end of his life. He was able to complete three. "Gilley" engraved on undersides of body and head.
Bufflehead
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Bufflehead
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Male bufflehead in adult plumage, swimming position ; head withdrawn and turned slightly to the left ; glass eyes, matte black, white, greys with minimal body detail ; blending of red/orange on head behind white wedge. Underside signed in pyrographic scratching "W.H.G." "Gilley" branded in script. Also written in felt-tip pen " '82 Buffle-Head".
Bufflehead
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Bufflehead
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Stamped "Gilley" and dated on underside.
Goldfinch
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981 ?
Goldfinch
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Adult male goldfinch in summer plumage sitting on real branch ; "Gilley" signature on front topside of base almost completely faded ; additionally underside bears jackknife rubber stamp Gilley mark ; underside of base marked "Wedding gift to Joe + Anne Bragdon from Wendell H. Gilley + Addie" ; dated Oct, 4, 1981.
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net.
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net in dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net in dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Unknown man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net and Dory
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net and dory. Unknown man pulling net into dory.
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Fish
  • 1987
Fish in Weir Net
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fish in weir net.
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Nature, Animals
  • Recreation
  • 9/1/1982
Down East Magazine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Mount Desert Island article p.52 “Making it in Maine” Horseman of Acadia: Article about William Tapley and his work with Wildwood Stable of Seal Harbor in Acadia National Park
Lobstering and The Maine Coast
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Shellfish, Lobsters
  • Other, Fishing
  • Martin, Kenneth R. and Nathan R. Lipfert
  • 1985
Lobstering and The Maine Coast
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Community life and everyday aspects of coastal Maine, especially lobstering, the "regional maritime culture."
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Long, Ralph H.
  • 1987
Description:
Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
Bald Eagle
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Bald Eagle
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Eagle standing over fish. Signed "Gilley" on front of base; inscribed "Bald Eagle 1982 by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. Metal fish is removeable.
Long-billed Curlew
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • 1980-11
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Long-billed Curlew
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Snapshot of curlew carved by Wendell Gilley placed on a coffee table. "Addie's Xmas present" written on reverse side of photograph
Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1981-11-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley in his workshop working on an osprey carving
Woodcock
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1980
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.
Chickadee
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981
Chickadee
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley '81" on right side of carved oblong base. Artist's stamp on underside of base
Art and Nan Kellam with Corey the Dog
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • 1980 c.
  • Frenchboro, Placentia Island
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Art and Nan Kellam with Corey the Dog
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Atlantic Puffin
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982
Atlantic Puffin
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on left front of carved wood base ; marked "8/11/82, To the Whitlocks in appreciation, Wendell Gilley"
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Nature, Animals
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ann Rivers, Steven Mullane
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert Rock
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.