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| Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Guests of honor, Wendell and Addie Gilley cut the ribbon on the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell and Addie Gilley, guests of honor at the museum's opening day, walk up the front walk | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley waves as Addie enters the front door of the new museum | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: The Gilleys with Steven Rockefeller looking at miniature carvings in a round display case | |
| Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie Gilley examines carving of herons in display case at the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: The Gilleys viewing exhibits followed by Steven Rockefeller | |
| Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Snapshot of Wendell Gilley standing at the door of his workshop ; photographer unknown | ||
| Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Describes the removal of the George Ripley Fuller House, located at the current Wendell Gilley Museum site (the corner of Rte. 102 and Herrick Rd., Southwest Harbor) prior to the museum's construction. | |
| 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. | ||||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Inscribed "Pileated Woodpecker by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base ; no date | |||
| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Figure permanently mounted on round footed base, intended to be covered with a glass dome. Top of base is a 3/4 inch diameter inner-ground of fine sand. Heron has cast lead legs and feet, lead-strip crest feathers, glass eyes. Signed "Gilley" on side of driftwood "stump" below left side of bird ; no date. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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" | ||
| Red Legged Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red Legged Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on top right of base. "National Woodcarvers Association Member"stamped on underside of base. No date | |||
| Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| 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 | ||
| Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on left side of base. Marked "Mallard's" on underside of base. Has artist's stamp on underside of base. No date | |||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| 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". | ||
| 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" | ||
| 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 | ||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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