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  • 2023.10.23
1641A question of balance
  • Publication, Book
  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Published by Raymond F. Evans Sporting Art Gallery, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
1581Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
1579Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Wendell Gilley exhibits forty carvings plus carvings-in-progress at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in the show "Down East Bird Carvings."
1237Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley Exhibit Sign
  • Image, Photograph
  • Carvings
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Sign at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for Wendell Gilley's Downeast Bird Carvings exhibit, October 29, 1976 through January 9, 1977.
1238Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement
  • Document, Advertising
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • Carvings
  • People
Description:
Page from an unknown publication announcing Gilley's exhibit of bird carvings at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
1582Gilley Celebrates 30th Year
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Events, Exhibitions
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Article from the Mount Desert Islander, July 14, 2011
1578Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Lists Wendell Gilley as one of America's top craftsmen exhibiting at the Kent County Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society show of waterfowl and upland game bird carvings in Nov. 1965. Other carvers exhibiting included Harold Haertel.
1240Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Letter congratulating Gilley on the success of the exhibition Downeast Bird Carvings of Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. On exhibit were sixty-one carvings of birds "on display together for the first time." 34, 272 people attended the exhibit during its ten week run from October 29, 1976 to January 7, 1977.
1556Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Carvings
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Letter regarding the possible exhibition of a Gilley piece in the Spirits and Nature Exhibition organized by Steven Rockefeller and held at Middlebury College. The piece was a carved and painted group of eiders made in 1970. Color slide transparency enclosed with letter
1241Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Events, Exhibitions
Description:
Letter thanking Wendell Gilley for the loan of his carvings for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1976 through Jan. 7, 1977
1242Philadelphia Inquirer article, Oct. 19, 1976
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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.