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| Wildlife in wood Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wildlife in wood Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published : Chillicothe, Ill. : Model Technology. Inscribed by the author "To Wendell Gilley, with best wishes to one of the pioneers in this field. We have all benefited from your efforts." | ||
| How to make working decoys Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| How to make working decoys Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: New York : Winchester Press. Page 69 is signed by Frank C. Wilson, a Massachusetts decoy carver who is featured in the book. Wilson's work was for sale in the Wendell Gilley Museum shop. | ||
| Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Southwest Harbor, Maine : Publisher's Northeast. Inscription to Nina Gormley by the author on title page. | ||
| A question of balance Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  A question of balance Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Raymond F. Evans Sporting Art Gallery, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia | ||
| The artist's Mount Desert : American painters on the Maine Coast Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  The artist's Mount Desert : American painters on the Maine Coast Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. | ||
| The traveling artist : a visual journal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  The traveling artist : a visual journal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by G Editions, New York | ||
| Game bird carving Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Game bird carving Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: New York : Winchester Press. Inscription to Wendell Gilley by the author on half title page. | ||
| Drawing nature Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Drawing nature Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. Signed by the author and dated "23 September 2018" | ||
| The Art of Dahlov Ipcar Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  The Art of Dahlov Ipcar Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Down East, c2010. Half title page signed by the artist. Title page signed by the author. | ||
| Beyond the spring : Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Beyond the spring : Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Lamoine, Maine : Latona Press, 1978. Inscription to Wendell Gilley by the author on half title page. | ||
| Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2009. Inscription to Nina Gormley, Museum Director, by the author on half title page. | ||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Bottom inscribed "Black Duck by W.H. Gilley. Made for Robert Kurtz." Dated 4/18/67. | ||
| Ruffed Grouse, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 2/3 life-size; adult pair on driftwood base, male standing on right, tail partially spread, head turned left, female on lower left, nested on wood, left toes protruding, tail folded, neck down, head turned slightly left; both with glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on center of base. Marked "Grouse, made for Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Long-eared Owl, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-eared Owl, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; pair on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base with painted metal glass in foreground, upper owl has wings up, head turned left facing front of piece, ear tufts erect, tail fanned out, legs reaching down as if alighting, lower owl perched, wings closed, ear tufts erect; both with glass eyes, metal toenails, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed"Gilley '75" on lower left of driftwood. Marked "Long-eared Owls by Wendell Gilley" on underside of base. [show more] | ||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of carved wooden base marked: "Herring Gull by W. H. Gilley 1978" | ||
| American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; undated | |||
| Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "G. Winged Teal" and signed "by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base | |||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult bald eagle, approximately one-sixth life-size, sitting upright on small driftwood knot ; lead feet with talons realistically gripping the base ; undercut wing tips crossed over carved tail ; Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; marked "Hilda, Hulda Bragdon, Xmas 1973" on underside of base | ||
| Red-shouldered Hawk Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-shouldered Hawk Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/2 life size; mounted on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, perched in hunting posture; glass eyes, metal feet, carved burned and painted detail. Marked, dated and signed "Red-shouldered Hawk, carved 1975, painted 1978, by W.H Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult on driftwood base stands erect, neck [?] back, head up, glass eyes, metal legs, feet, and crest feathers, painted details. Signed on lower right of base "Gilley." | ||
| Willet Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Willet Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, standing, right foot forward, beak agape, wings outspread, tail erect; glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. Marked "Made for Addie Gilley, 1974, by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Osprey with Mackerel Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Osprey with Mackerel Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/3 life size; osprey on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, wings upraised, head down, beak open; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Marked "made for Addie Gilley, driftwood gift of Mrs. David Rockefeller, Osprey by Wendell Gilley, 1971" on underside of base. Separate companion Mackerel: glass eyes, carved and painted detail. | ||
| Marbled Godwit, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Marbled Godwit, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Near life size; on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, bird on right standing erect, head turned to right, left leg raised, left bird bending over, right leg raised; both birds with glass eyes, metal legs and feet. Signed "Gilley '75" on left of base. Marked "Property of Addie Gilley, Marbled Godwit 1975, by W.H. Gilley" on underside. | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Robin, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Robin, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; perched on green, oblong, wooden mound base, erect posture, facing forward; glass eyes, wire feet and legs, painted and burned detail. Marked, dated and signed "Robin, made for Addie Gilley, 1978, by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of adult herons on roughly "x" shaped driftwood mount. On lower right arm of the "x" a heron in hunting posture is loosely mounted. On upper arm of the x, another heron is depicted in a guarding posture. Twin metal-strip crest, glass eyes, metal feet and legs realistically painted. Signed "Gilley" on top side of sand-finished oblong base, lower right. | |||
| Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Black-capped chickadee head down on branch. Artist's stamp on underside of carved oblong base | ||
| Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult on small driftwood base ; body appears to be "bobbing" downward ; tail swept up, wing tips folded over ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet ; body covered overall with finely incised lines. Signed, dated and marked "Semipalmated Plover (Lifesize) by W.H. Gilley, 1975" on underside of base. | ||
| Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult standing on weathered driftwood base, right leg retracted, neck slightly outstretched, head erect and looking ahead, bill curved slightly downward ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Signed on top of base near left foot: "Gilley" in felt tip pen ; also on underside, "Spotted Sandpiper by W.H. Gilley, 1979" | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 3/4 to life size; adult male standing, head turned slightly to left on burl base, tail raised; painted eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed and marked "Ring-necked Pheasant for Addie Gilley by W.H. Gilley, 1976" on underside of base . | ||
| Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. No date | |||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked "Made especially for Francis W. Rawle" and signed "by W.H. Gilley". | ||
| Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; no date | |||
| Green Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/2 life size; adult on driftwood base, standing, neck down, beak horizontal, facing forward; glass eyes, metal legs, carved and burned detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. | ||
| Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, standing with right foot forward, head turned slightly to left; glass eyes, metal legs, carved and painted details. Stamped "Gilley" on body between legs. Signed "Gilley" on base, marked "Yellowlegs by W.H. Gilley, made for Addie Gilley, Aug 1972" on underside of base. | ||
| Double-crested Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Double-crested Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/3 life size; adult on driftwood base, standing upright, mouth agape, head turned to left, crests erect; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley 74" on base. Marked "made for Addie Gilley, 1974, Double Crested Cormorant by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Inscribed "Made for Byron and Maureen Cheever" on underside of base ; signed "Gilley '72" on top of base. | ||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  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. | ||
| Wood Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wood Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; swimming, flat bottom adult, head turned to left, crest down; glass eyes, burned and painted detail. Marked "Wood Duck made for Addie Gilley, Christmas 1970, by W.H. Gilley." | ||
| Great Hornbill Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Hornbill Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Carved at the request of Addie Gilley, who was inspired by an illustration in a book about birds of the world. Signed "Gilley" on bottom of driftwood branch. Underside of base marked "Native of India, Sumatra, Indo China". | ||
| Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 3/4 life size; pair on driftwood base, bird on left standing erect, head turned to right and raised, looking upward, bird on right squatting, neck down, facing forward; both with glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '72" on base. | ||
| Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; horizontal stand, perched with one foot in crotch of twig, one up on branch, twig mounted in oblong mound, carved wooden base. Signed "Gilley '76" on lower right of base, underside marked: "Bluebird by Wendell Gilley, 1976, 7." | ||
| Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult male and female perched on twig, facing opposite directions, attached to shaped fiber board base, male higher on twig, distinguished by orange in crown, female below; both with glass eyes, wire feet and legs, painted plumage detail, base brown with green. Signed "Gilley" on right of base. Marked and dated "Golden Crowned Kinglets, Addie Gilley, 1972" on underside of base. | ||
| Belted Kingfisher, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Belted Kingfisher, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood attached to carved oblong base, perched upright, head turned slightly left; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Marked, dated, signed "Kingfisher, made for Addie Gilley, 1973, by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Herring Gull with Fish Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull with Fish Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/2 life size; adult swimming, flat bottom, carved and painted fish in beak, head tilted left; glass eyes, carved and painted decorative detail. Signed "Gilley" and marked "Addie Gilley" on underside of base. Dated "1946" | ||
| Long-tailed Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-tailed Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; swimming; flat bottom, tail up, head turned slightly left; glass eyes, carved and painted detail. Signed, dated and marked: "Oldsquaw (male) 1970, made for Addie Gilley by W.H. Gilley" on underside. Companion piece no. 81.1.85 | ||
| Loon with Two Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Loon with Two Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; three part composition: one swimming, flat-bottomed adult, two swimming, flat-bottomed chicks; adult's head turned slightly to left, with glass eyes and painted detail; chick a's head is erect, chick b's head is down, both have burned detail. Adult marked, dated, signed "Loon, made for Addie Gilley by W.H. Gilley, 1973" on underside. Chicks unmarked. | ||
| Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/5 life size; mounted on driftwood base, standing on toes, wings outstretched; glass eyes, lead feet, painted and carved detailed. Signed "Gilley" on front of base. Marked "Made for Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/3 life size pair; mounted on driftwood base, male standing above female, wings raised, head pointing downward, beak partially open, female crouched below, wings folded, beak closed; both with glass eyes and lead feet, painted details. Signed on front of base, marked "C. Tern, Addie Gilley, 1966" on underside of base. | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Owl perched on U-shaped branch mounted on flat wooden base. "Gilly" faintly visible on base near bottom of branch. Inscribed "Saw Whet Owl made for Evelyn Foss" and stamped "Wendell H. Gilley" on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Common eider pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common eider pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male eider perched on carved rock facing female. Female faces forward on the carved wooden base. Underside marked Northern eiders by W.H. Gilley, S.W. Harbor, Maine. No date. | |||
| Clapper Rail Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Clapper Rail Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on burnt driftwood base, attached to base by left foot, standing, right leg slightly raised, hood turned slightly left; glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '76" on left of base, marked "Gilley, Clapper Rail" on underside of base. | ||
| Spoonbill Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Spoonbill Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; standing in upright-horizontal forward posture, beak pointing downward on curled driftwood base; carved and painted eyes, wire legs, painted plumage. Signed "Gilley" on right side of base, marked and dated "Addie Gilley, Feb 20 1968" on underside of base. | ||
| Screech Owl (Gray Phase) Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Screech Owl (Gray Phase) Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 3/4 Life size; perched on driftwood piece attached to carved wooden base, head turned right, two toes of left foot exposed, three toes of right foot exposed, ear tufts laid back; glass eyes, metal toe nails, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '75" on left of base, marked "Screech Owl 3/4 life size, 1975, by W.H. Gilley, property of Addie Gilley" on underside of base. Gray phase. | ||
| Brown Pelican Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Brown Pelican Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; adult on shaped wooden "pier" attached to round, flat wooden base, standing, head raised, two fish hanging out of bill; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on front of base, stamped "Wendell H. Gilley, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679" on underside of base. Marked "Addie Gilley, xmas 1975." | ||
| Brown Pelican Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Brown Pelican Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; adult on shaped wooden "pier" attached to circular, flat wooden base, standing, facing forward, head and beak vertical; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "by Wendell Gilley," marked "Addie Gilley, Xmas 1975" on underside of base. Companion piece no. 81.1.21. | ||
| Pink Flamingo Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pink Flamingo Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; standing with right foot on driftwood base, left leg half raised, neck curved downward; painted eyes and detail. Signed and dated "Gilley 1967" on right side of base. Marked "Addie Gilley" on underside. | ||
| Great Gray Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Gray Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 1/10 life size; perched on driftwood piece attached to carved wooden base, owl's head turned over left shoulder; glass eyes, painted detail. Signed "Gilley," on top of stamp, marked "Addie Gilley," on underside of base. | ||
| Snowy Owl, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Snowy Owl, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Owl looking over left shoulder, glass eyes, wire toes. Signed "Gilley" on rear of driftwood base. Underside of base stamped Wendell H. Gilley. | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult perched on driftwood piece set into shaped wooden base, body in profile with head turned over right shoulder to "front" of piece; glass eyes, wire toes, four first toes protruding, painted plumage detail. Signed "Gilley '75" on right front of base. Marked and dated "Addie Gilley, Saw-whet owl by W.H. Gilley, 1975" on underside of base, which also has artist stamp. Artist considered this his best saw-whet owl. [show more] | ||
| Screech Owl (red phase) Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Screech Owl (red phase) Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/2 life size; perched on driftwood base, upright posture, head turned left, ear-tufts semi-erect, front toes exposed; glass eyes, painted plumage. Signed "Gilley" on lower left side of base. Marked "Screech Owl by W.H. Gilley, 1969, Addie Gilley" on underside of base. Made for Rob Kurtz - traded for gray | ||
| Bobwhite Quail Hen with Six Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Quail Hen with Six Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult and six young mounted on driftwood; a very animated piece: the hen looking down at the three chicks in front of her, the three others are exploring behind her; one chick is standing upright with tiny wings outstretched; adult has pinhead eyes; all birds have painted plumage detail, wire legs and feet. Signed "Gilley" on right rear of base. Marked and dated "Made by W.H. Gilley, Addie Gilley, Dec. 1960" on underside of base. [show more] | ||
| Ruddy Turnstone Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruddy Turnstone Wendell Gilley Museum Description: About 1/4 life size; mounted on natural wood base, erect posture facing forward; black pinhead eyes, wired legs and feet, painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on side of base, underside of base marked "Ruddy Turnstone, W.H. Gilley, Addie Gilley." | ||
| American Goldeneye, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Goldeneye, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; swimming duck, neck down; painted detail. Unsigned. Companion to 81.1.79. | ||
| American Goldeneye, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Goldeneye, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; swimming drake, head turned slightly right; painted detail. Signed and dated "Gilley '72" on underside. | ||
| Wild Turkey, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wild Turkey, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/5 life size; mounted on driftwood base, walking pose, left leg forward, attached by middle toe, right leg behind, attached by left toe; glass eyes, wire feet, carved and painted detail. Signed and dated "Gilley '74" on right side of base, marked "Wild Turkey by W.H. Gilley, 1974, Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Black Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; pair mounted on driftwood base, lower duck has head turned around right shoulder, upper duck's head turned slightly left, neck withdrawn; both with glass eyes, painted detail, lead feet. Signed, dated, marked "Black duck for Addie Gilley by W.H. Gilley, 1974" on underside of base. | ||
| Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/5 life size; mounted on driftwood base, standing erect on right foot, left foot raised; glass eyes, bristle "beard", metal legs and feet, painted and carved detail. Signed on base, underside of base dated 1974, marked "Addie, Wild Turkey." | ||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 3/4 life size; outstretched wings, alighting on driftwood limb mounted on carved oblong base, Phillips head screw in base, toes 3:1; glass eyes, carved and painted plumage detail. Signed: "Gilley '72" on lower right side of base. Underside marked: "Addie Gilley, xmas 1972." | ||
| Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size; adults on driftwood base; gander on left has head turned slightly left, neck erect; goose on lower right bent left with neck down; both with glass eyes, metal legs; carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on left of base, marked "Addie Gilley, Canada Geese, 1971 by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Almost life size; three flying adults attached by wires from male's (center bird) feet to driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base; base has metal grass, two additional pieces of driftwood, touches of green paint. Birds attached to each other with wire, upper female attached to male by hole beneath tail, lower female attached to male by wire from left wing, all birds with glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on side of driftwood stump. Marked "Bob White by W.H. Gilley, 1974" on underside of base. [show more] | ||
| Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bluebird Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size adult ; perched on twig, mounted on carved oblong base; glass eyes, metal legs and feet, upright posture, head turned slightly to left. Signed “Gilley ’76” on rear end of base. Some blue paint on base; underside marked “11;” Phillips head screw attaching base to twig. | ||
| Northern Cardinal, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Northern Cardinal, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male perched facing downward on driftwood branch attached to carved oblong base. Glass eyes ; wire and metal legs and feet. Oval pine base gouged and stained ; underside of base covered in felt. No visible signature or date | |||
| White-throated Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  White-throated Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; mounted on driftwood base, head and tail erect; glass eyes, wire legs, painted detail. Signed, dated and marked "White-throated Sparrow by W.H. Gilley, 1974 for Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Tit on a Vise Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Red-winged Blackbird Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-winged Blackbird Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male perched on branching twig on carved pine base ; wire legs and metal feet with talons grasping the branch ; glass eyes. Entire body covered with fine incised lines, deeper where suggesting primaries and tail feathers. Underside of base marked "Red-winged blackbird by W. H. Gilley 1977". | ||
| Northern Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Vesper Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; clinging to twig in characteristic upside-down position, twig screwed to shaped wooden base; pinhead eyes, wire legs and feet, detail in color and relief; Signed "Gilley '73." Marked "Chickadee for Addie Gilley, 1973" on underside. | ||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Rose-breasted Grosbeak Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male, approximately life size, sitting on twig, head slightly cocked and turned left ; no visible legs, cut metal talons ; glass eyes. Signed in felt tip pen "by W. H. Gilley" and dated 1976 on underside of base; also faintly signed on top lower right of base | ||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/3 life size; adult on driftwood base, head turned over left shoulder, preening left wing; glass eyes, metal legs, carved and painted detail. Underside of base marked "Addie Gilley" faded stamp: Wendell H. Gilley, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679." | ||
| White-winged Crossbill Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  White-winged Crossbill Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood base. No date | |||
| Downy Woodpecker on Birch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downy Woodpecker on Birch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Downy woodpecker perched on birch "tree" mounted on carved oblong wooden base. Signed "Gilley" on bottom of birch ; no date | |||
| King Eider Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  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 | ||
| Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum Description: "Made for Len and Dianne with love" inscribed on underside of base | ||
| Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size male; mounted on driftwood branch attached to carved oblong wooden base, body tilted downward; glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail. Unsigned. Marked "Addie Gilley, 1978" on underside. | ||
| Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male on gnarled driftwood root; glass eyes, wire legs and cut metal feet. Signed "Gilley '78" on oblong pine base ; underside of base marked "Evening Grosbeak #33" | ||
| Pine Grosbeak, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pine Grosbeak, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base below bird's left wing. Gilley's stamp on bottom of base | ||
| Red-breasted Merganser, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has black A.E. Crowell & Son label on underside of base. Label marked "Fe. Shelldrake" | |||
| Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has black A.E. Crowell & Son label on underside of base. Label marked "Shelldrake" | |||
| Common Eider, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  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. | ||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, semi upright, beak pointed downward; glass eyes, painted detail, wire legs and feet. Unsigned, undated. | ||
| Tree Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Tree Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 2/3 life size; semi-erect posture, facing forward, tail horizontal; glass eyes, wire legs set in smooth mound base, painted feet. Signed and marked "Addie Gilley, Tree Sparrow by W.H Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Neck extended and head turned to the right. Glass eyes, metal legs and feet. Driftwood base, no visible signature or date | |||
| Osprey Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Osprey Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Almost life size; adult on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, wings raised, tail spread, head down, beak open, tongue exposed; glass eyes, metal toenails, extensive carved, burned and painted detail. Faded signature: "Gilley" on left of base. Marked "Osprey (near life size) by Wendell H. Gilley, SW Harbor, Maine, 1973, property of Addie B. Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; "swimming" duck, head turned forward and to right; glass eyes, adult plumage, painted detail. Signed "Gilley" and marked "Addie Gilley, Red-breasted Merganser (male)" on underside of base. | ||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult ; mounted on drift wood base; painted plumage, glass eyes, carved feet. Signed "Gilley" below right foot; stamped "Wendell H. Gilley" on underside, marked "Addie Gilley." | ||
| Ruffed Grouse, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; mounted on natural wooden base, upright posture, tail fanned open horizontally; glass eyes, carved feet, highly detailed painted plumage. Signed "Gilley" on right rear of base, Underside of base marked: "Addie Gilley, Ruffed Grouse by W.H. Gilley, 1966." | ||
| Blue-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Mounted on driftwood base; standing, wings down, head lowered and cocked to right in "quizzical" expression; glass eyes, metal feet, painted and carved detail. Signed on base "Gillley". Underside of base marked: "This is one of a limited edition of only two of this model made, W.G. Common "Loon" by W.H. Gilley, 1973, property of Addie Gilley." | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; 3-D feet, mounted on round, smooth wooden base, erect posture, faces forward; pinhead eyes, painted detail. Underside signed, dated, marked: "Gilley, '59. Addie Gilley." | ||
| Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the 2018 Premier Edition of Cultural adventures : Acadia and Downeast Maine. Gives background information about Wendell Gilley and describes carving classes offered by the Wendell Gilley Museum. Features photos of a great horned owl carved by Wendell Gilley as well as sandpipers carved by students in the museum's carving classes. | |
| Woodcraft catalog Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcraft catalog Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Cover and page 16 of Woodcraft catalog 73-74 showing Wendell Gilley in his workshop | ||
| Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the July 2021 issue of Down East Magazine. Describes the history and current day programming of the Wendell Gilley Museum. Resident artist Steve Valleau is featured. | |
| Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Invitation to a black tie dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa. On the back page is a handwritten note from Barbara Tyson to Wendell. | ||
| Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Frank M. Chapman with seventy-five full-page colored plates after drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published by D. Appleton. | ||
| Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Frank M. Chapman, with full-page plates in colors and black and white by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Revised edition. Published by D. Appleton and Co. Maps on end papers. | ||
| Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Richard H. Pough, color illustrations by Don Eckelberry, line drawings by Earl L. Poole. Maps on end papers. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Published by Doubleday & Co. First edition. | ||
| Wood carving : with suggestions in chip carving : designed as an elementary course of instruction and to meet the requirements of technical classes in connection with the Board of Education. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Description: By Thomas C. Simmonds with numerous illustrations by the author, published by George Allen & Unwin, 1892, reprinted 1924. | ||
| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Athos and Sara Menaboni, published by Rinehart & Co. | ||
| Waterfowl of North America Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Waterfowl of North America Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Number 102 of 1000 book edition. Contains 42 plates. Published by Frame House Printing. Also included with this book dontion are seven holiday cards created by Zimmerman and sent by him to the donor's parents. | ||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  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 |
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| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch. Underside of driftwood inscribed Saw Whet Owl by W.H. Gilley 1969. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood near owl's tail. | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch attached to carved wooden base by single screw. Underside of base inscribed Saw-whet Owl 1/2 life size made for Mary Holmes 1973. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood branch. | ||
| Quail Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Quail Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Quail standing on mound shaped wooden base, one leg lifted. Very faded signature on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Great blue heron standing on driftwood branch. Metal legs and feet. Branch signed "Gilley '73" near feet. Underside inscribed "Gt. Blue Heron", "Addie Gilley", | ||
| Portraits of New England birds. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Portraits of New England birds. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Drawn in color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Allan Brooks for "Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states" by Edward Howe Forbush. Published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | ||
| Birds of America. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds of America. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Editor-in-Chief, T. Gilbert Pearson, consulting editor, John Burroughs. Published by The University Society, Inc. Nature Lovers Library, volume 3. | ||
| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Ludlow Griscom, Alexander Sprunt, Jr. and other ornithologists of note. Illustrated by John Henry Dick. Published by The Devin-Adair Co. | ||
| Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Grosset & Dunlap. Signed by the author. | ||
| Art of the decoy : American bird carvings. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Art of the decoy : American bird carvings. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Drawings by Lou Schifferl. Published by Bramhall House. Signed by the author. | ||
| American water and game birds. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| American water and game birds. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Silhouettes by Ugo Mochi. Photographs by Allan D. Cruikshank and others. Prepared in cooperation with the Chicago Natural History Museum. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Flyleaf inscribed : "To Wendell Gilley - May this book help a bit to inspire you to still more perfection in your art - Friend Billy B., 1956". | ||
| The art of wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds : a demonstration in color reproduction from The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, by permission. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds : a demonstration in color reproduction from The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, by permission. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Front cover signed "W. H. Gilley, S.W. Harbor, Maine". | |||
| Fåglar i naturen Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Fåglar i naturen Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published in Stockholm by Wahlstrom & Widstrand. In Swedish. Flyleaf inscribed " To my friend Wendell Gilley, Scott". | ||
| Wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Illustrated by Constance Morton. Published by Bonanza Books. | ||
| A book of ducks. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| A book of ducks. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Penguin Books. Plates by Peter Shepheard. On cover: "A King Penguin Book." Endpaper signed "Wendell Gilley." | ||
| Feathered pets : a treatise on the food, breeding and care of canaries, parrots and other cage birds. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Feathered pets : a treatise on the food, breeding and care of canaries, parrots and other cage birds. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 25th edition. Published by the author. | |||
| Rex Brasher's Birds & trees of North America. Volume one. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Rex Brasher's Birds & trees of North America. Volume one. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Rowman and Littlefield | ||
| Brief bird biographies : a guide to birds through habitat associations. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Brief bird biographies : a guide to birds through habitat associations. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by Grosset & Dunlap | ||
| Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: With an introduction by John Burroughs, Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. | ||
| The Quails. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| The Quails. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Illustrated by Francis Lee Jaques. Published by MacMillan. | ||
| Birds of America Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds of America Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Editor-in-Chief, T. Gilbert Pearson, consulting editor, John Burroughs. With 106 plates in full color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Published by Garden City Books. | ||
| Pheasants, their lives and homes. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Pheasants, their lives and homes. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. | ||
| Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published by J. A. Wagenseller | ||
| Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One chickadee hanging upside down near top of branch above second chickadee perched on lower part of branch. Branch attached to carved oval wooden base. Underside of base inscribed "Chickadees by Wendell Gilley S.W. Harbor, Maine. No date visible. | |||
| Wendell Gilley Hunting Waterfowl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley Hunting Waterfowl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley crouched in blind with gun | |||
| Carved Wooden Molds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Carved Wooden Molds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Various wooden molds Wendell Gilley carved for use in making cast lead feet | |||
| Heron Patterns Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Heron Patterns Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Various paper patterns drawn by Wendell Gilley for use in carving herons | |||
| Wendell Gilley Carving a Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley Carving a Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gillley seated at his workbench carving what appears to be a miniature pheasant. Pieces of driftwood are on table behind him | |||
| Wendell Gilley at his Workbench Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley at his Workbench Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley in checked shirt with pipe seated at his workbench | |||
| Wendell H. Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley working on a wood carving. At his collar he is wearing a pin shaped like a duck. | ||||
| Wendell H. Gilley Painting a Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley Painting a Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley at his work table painting a carving of a cardinal, bookshelves in background | ||||
| David and Nelson Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  David and Nelson Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: David and Nelson Rockefeller holding the bald eagle David commissioned from Wendell Gilley as a gift for Nelson. | ||
| Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the donor of a bronze sculpture by Walther Matia in memory of Foster Whitlock . The letter thanks her for her donation of the sculpture to the museum and describes the dedication ceremony. | ||
| Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Flyer advertising the Wendell Gilley Museum Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day, Aug. 10, 1990. Auctioned items included a framed set of prints, "20 Birds of Mount Desert Island" by Carroll Sargent Tyson. | ||
| Wendell Gilley in his Workshop Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley in his Workshop Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell uses a barber's chair he converted into a workbench to hold an eagle carving while he works on it. | |||
| Wendell Holmes Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Holmes Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Gilley smokes a pipe while carving an Osprey in his Southwest Harbor, Maine workshop | ||
| Wooden National Wood Carvers' Association Name Badge Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wooden National Wood Carvers' Association Name Badge Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley's National Wood Carvers' Association Name Badge labelled "N.W.C.A. Director Wendell H. Gilley, 179-1, S. West Harbor, Me." | ||||
| Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Original master plumber license issued by the State of Maine to Wendell Gilley, owner of Gilley Plumbing Company, in 1944 | |||
| Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; working/decorative decoy - disassembles into four pieces: beak, head, body and leg/base - body hollow, hinged on bottom, closes on back with hasp, head and beak can be enclosed in body; glass eyes, painted detail, single dowel leg set in driftwood base. Signed "Gilley '69" on rear of base. Marked "Only two made, property of Addie Gilley" on underside of base. A copy of a decoy pattern, one of two ever made by W.H. Gilley. [show more] | ||
| Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, standing with right foot raised. Underside of base marked "Yellowlegs 1972" | ||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Almost life size; two chickadees on driftwood, both standing upright, left chickadee has head down; both with glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '58" on rear of base. | ||
| Wood Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Whimbrel Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Whimbrel Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has stamp "A. E. Crowell, East Harwich" on underside of base. | |||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Barrow's Goldeneye, Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Barrow's Goldeneye, Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has black A.E. Crowell & Son label on underside of base | |||
| Redhead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Pintail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pintail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniatures; pair standing side by side, female to the right, male to the left on driftwood base; glass eyes, lead feet, painted feather detail. Signed "Gilley" and marked "Made for Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Semipalmated Plover Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; bird on driftwood base; glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail. Stamped "W.H. Gilley, Southwest Harbor" on underside of base. | ||
| American Goldeneye Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Goldeneye Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature male ; mounted on oblong smooth wood base, upright posture facing forward; glass eyes, metal legs and feet. Signed on side of base: "Gilley." Underside of base marked: "Addie Gilley, Am. Goldeneye." | ||
| Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult; glass eyes, wire legs set into smooth round base with painted feet; body horizontal, head semi-erect, facing forward; underside of base marked/signed "Addie Gilley, by W. H. Gilley." Elmer Crowell copy | ||
| Redhead drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Canvasback Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canvasback Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; mounted on grey mound base, hunched over, beak pointing to ground; painted eyes and feet, wire legs set into base. Marked "Copy of bird made by A.C. Crowell" and "Addie Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male roadrunner in a typical "striding" position, head outstretched with slightly dropped wings. Minimal carved detail, more developed painted detail. Glass eyes, wire legs, metal feet. Mounted on oval pine base, gouge-carved and painted. Marked on underside of base in ballpoint pen: "Road Runner"; signed "Gilley" on lower edge of top of base. No date | |||
| Long Billed Curlew Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long Billed Curlew Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult on driftwood base, squatting, tail up, neck arched back; glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail, beak made from naturally curved piece of ash. Bird was originally made standing erect, then changed - two holes where old legs were placed behind present pair. Unsigned. | ||
| Barn Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Barn Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; adult perched sidelong on driftwood piece attached to oblong carved wooden base, toes three front one back, head turned to right shoulder; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley '76" on base. Marked "Barn Owl made for Addie Gilley, 1976, by Wendell Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Woodcock Pair with Two Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Pair with Two Chicks Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature group on natural wooden base: male upright, wings hanging down, wire legs, painted feet; female nestled on wood, chicks between parent birds. Great degree of painted detail depicting adult and immature plumage. Signed "Gilley" on right side of base, underside marked: "Addie Gilley, Gilley." | ||
| Wood Duck, Group Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wood Duck, Group Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Approx. 1/4 life size group of five; two males, three females on partially burned driftwood base, males on right, far right male preening breast feathers, females on left, far left female preening left shoulder; all with glass eyes, metal feet, carved and painted details. Unsigned. | ||
| Herring Gull, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 1/4 life size; folded wings, perched on natural base; glass eyes, painted, semi-detailed plumage markings. Signed: "Gilley '73" on right side of base. | ||
| Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size pair; adults on burned driftwood attached to oblong carved wooden base, left bird higher, standing, wings up, beak agape, right bird standing, wings closed, beak closed; both birds with glass eyes, metal feet. Signed "Gilley" on left of base. Marked "Common Tern, Addie Gilley, 1976" on underside of base. | ||
| Rudy Turnstone, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Rudy Turnstone, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life size; male and female on oblong, sand covered wooden base with two attached driftwood pieces, male standing on burned driftwood, head turned over left shoulder, facing front of composition, female on lower right, attached to oblong base, head to ground, tail up; both have glass eyes, metal legs, carved, burned and painted detail. Unsigned. Marked "Property of Addie Gilley, Ruddy Turnstone, 1975" on underside of base. | ||
| Belted Kingfishers, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Belted Kingfishers, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked "Belted Kingfishers by Wendell Gilley 1977. Also stamped "W.H. Gilley" | ||
| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; head and body one piece, wire legs set into round, black base, feet painted, semi-detailed. Marked on underside of base: "Mallard, W.H. Gilley, First Bird, Made 1930, Addie Gilley." First bird carving by Wendell H. Gilley. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yellow-shafted Flicker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellow-shafted Flicker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One of sixty-one carvings exhibited in a major museum retrospective "Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley" at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1976/77. Adult male northern flicker in a feeding position on driftwood mount ; glass eyes, cast lead feet with curved talons "gripping" the curves of the driftwood ; signed "Gilley" in black ink on lower left of the upper surface of the mount ; additionally signed on the flat underside of the base in three separate areas: "Yellow-shafted Flicker" and "By W.H. Gilley 1969" and "Made especially for Dr. & Mrs. J.L. Hollander." [show more] | ||
| 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. | ||
| Black Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male, preening ; signed "Gilley" on rear of base ; stamped "Wendell H. Gilley" on underside of base | ||
| Blue Jay with Acorn Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Blue Jay with Acorn Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Blue jay with real acorn in its beak perched on driftwood branch on oval base ; wire and metal legs and feet ; glass eyes ; signed "Gilley" on front of base ; no date | |||
| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  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. | ||
| 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." | ||
| Loon with Chick and Egg Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Loon with Chick and Egg Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Common loon adult standing over nest with attached egg and unattached chick, head bent down, beak touching unhatched egg on oblong wooden base covered with sand and nesting material; adult loon has glass eyes, carved and painted detail, metal feet; egg painted; chick one-piece, beak open, flat bottom, pinhead eyes, painted detail. Marked, dated and signed "Made for Addie Gilley, 1964, Common Loon by Wendell Gilley" on underside of base. | ||
| Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley is a name well known among carvers and carving collectors. Author of The Art of Bird Carving: A Guide to a Fascinating Hobby, one of the earliest instructional books on the subject, Gilley was a pioneer in the field of decorative bird carving. By his estimate, he created “ten thousand birds of pine and paint” between 1931 and 1983. (Gilley also loved alliteration; it should be noted that most of his carvings were made of basswood.) [show more] | |||
| Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie Gilley’s created an outstanding collection of her husband’s work. The carvings that Addie so wisely saved over the years became the core of the Museum’s permanent collection. Wendell and Addie were the guests of honor at the opening of the Gilley Museum on July 12, 1981. They remained active in the museum until their deaths a few months apart in 1983. | ||||
| Patterns by Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Patterns by Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Loose-leaf binder containing photocopies of bird carving patterns drawn by Wendell Gilley. Index of patterns in front pocket of binder. | ||
| Willet Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Willet Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of willet carved by Wendell Gilley. Stamped "Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine" on back ; numbered "#40" | ||
| Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of an interior showing gull carvings, including a mobile, by Wendell Gilley. Stamped "Anchor Light Studio, W.H. Ballard, Southwest Harbor, Maine" on back. | ||
| Herring Gull on Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull on Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a herring gull carved by Wendell Gilley. The gull is perched on a buoy with the number 7 painted on it. Behind the gull is a painted scene of water and rocks. Stamped "W.H. Ballard, Photographer, S. W. Harbor, Me" on back. | ||
| Group of four ducks and a Canada goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Group of four ducks and a Canada goose Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of five birds carved by Wendell Gilley. Clockwise from left: black duck, Canada goose, canvasback, harlequin duck, and common eider. Stamped "W.H. Ballard, Photographer, S. W. Harbor, Me" on back. Numbered "#28" in pencil above stamp. | ||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a carving by Wendell Gilley of a pileated woodpecker perched on driftwood | |
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Single bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gilley that is part of group shown mounted over a fireplace in another photograph. | ||
| Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Yellowlegs Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a carving of a yellowlegs by Wendell Gilley. | |
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of an interior showing a grouping of bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gilley mounted over a fireplace . | ||
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Partial view of a group of bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gillley shown mounted over a fireplace in another photograph. |
