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1562Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
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Snapshot of Wendell Gilley standing at the door of his workshop ; photographer unknown
1563Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck
  • Publication, Periodical
  • Carvings
  • People
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Article from Audubon Adventures, volume 2, number 4 (February/March 1986). Matthew Beal and Stephen Brooks are interviewed about learning to carve at the Wendell Gilley Museum with museum artist Steven Valleau.
1575Bar Harbor Times article, April 8, 1971
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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This article, titled "Capt. Black: Artist and Surgeon", describes Wendell Gilley's influence on sculptor Paul Black. It also mentions Gilley's Canada goose carved for Harry S. Truman.
1576Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Wendell Gilley meeting with National Wood Carvers Association officials Edwin Moore and Bernie Eilerman in his home in Southwests Harbor
1577Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Columnist Wes Lawrence, visiting Southwest Harbor, writes about Wendell Gilley. Gilley's last name is misspelled "Gillie".
1578Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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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.
1579Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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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."
1580Southwest Harbor Man Gave Up Family Business to Become "Whittling" Artist
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Bar Harbor Times article about Wendell Gilley's beginnings as an artist. Publication date is unknown.
1581Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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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.
1583Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
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Article from the Evening Telegram (Herkimer, N.Y.), May 17, 1967. Wendell Gilley was the featured speaker at the National Woodcarvers Association's New York chapter's second annual meeting, according to the article, which gives biographical and professional information about him.
1589Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License
  • Document, Permission, License, Occupational License
  • Businesses, Service Business
  • People
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Original master plumber license issued by the State of Maine to Wendell Gilley, owner of Gilley Plumbing Company, in 1944
1590David and Nelson Rockefeller
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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David and Nelson Rockefeller holding the bald eagle David commissioned from Wendell Gilley as a gift for Nelson.
1592Wendell H. Gilley Painting a Cardinal
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gilley at his work table painting a carving of a cardinal, bookshelves in background
1593Wendell H. Gilley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gilley working on a wood carving. At his collar he is wearing a pin shaped like a duck.
1594Wendell Gilley in his Workshop
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell uses a barber's chair he converted into a workbench to hold an eagle carving while he works on it.
1595Wendell Gilley at his Workbench
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
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Wendell Gilley in checked shirt with pipe seated at his workbench
1596Wendell Gilley Carving a Pheasant
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gillley seated at his workbench carving what appears to be a miniature pheasant. Pieces of driftwood are on table behind him
1597Wendell Gilley Hunting Waterfowl
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Recreation, Hunting
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Wendell Gilley crouched in blind with gun
1003Wendell Holmes Gilley
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
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Gilley smokes a pipe while carving an Osprey in his Southwest Harbor, Maine workshop
1004Wendell Holmes Gilley at Work on a Goose
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gilley painting a Canada Goose. Reverse side marked: "W SW '75"
1196Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Other Object, Decoys
  • People
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Letter to the editor of the Wendell Gilley Museum's publication, The Eider, from James C. Collins after learning of Wendell Gilley's death
1198Letter from Steven C. Rockefeller to Members of the Wendell Gilley Museum Nominating Committee
  • Document, Correspondence
  • People
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Letter concerning the proposed nomination of Arthur Rogers, Jr. for trustee of the museum by Jim Wallis
1200Letter from Raymond L. Stearns to Nina Gormley
  • Document, Correspondence
  • People
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Letter to the Museum Director about sending the museum copies of letters received from Wendell Gilley. Enclosed are two letters by Wendell Gilley to Mr. Stearns.
1222Wendell H. Gilley with Osprey - 1972
  • Image, Photograph
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gilley holding carved osprey in a snow covered yard, Southeast Harbor, Maine
1223Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Oct. 1971
  • Image, Photograph
  • Carvings
  • People
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Wendell Gilley at work on a carving in his workshop.