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  • 23.10.202
1640The artist's Mount Desert : American painters on the Maine Coast
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
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Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
  • 23.10.20
1639The traveling artist : a visual journal
  • Publication, Book
  • People
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Published by G Editions, New York
  • 23.08.01
1636The Art of Dahlov Ipcar
  • Publication, Book
  • People
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Published by Down East, c2010. Half title page signed by the artist. Title page signed by the author.
  • 2023.08.15
1635Beyond the spring : Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre.
  • Publication, Book
  • Birds
  • People
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Published: Lamoine, Maine : Latona Press, 1978. Inscription to Wendell Gilley by the author on half title page.
  • 2023.08.02
1634Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970
  • Publication, Book
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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Published: Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2009. Inscription to Nina Gormley, Museum Director, by the author on half title page.
1633Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article]
  • Publication, Periodical
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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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.
1632Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article]
  • Publication, Periodical
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
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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.
1631Woodcraft catalog
  • Publication, Catalog
  • People
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Cover and page 16 of Woodcraft catalog 73-74 showing Wendell Gilley in his workshop
1597Wendell Gilley Hunting Waterfowl
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Recreation, Hunting
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Wendell Gilley crouched in blind with gun
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
1595Wendell Gilley at his Workbench
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
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Wendell Gilley in checked shirt with pipe seated at his workbench
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
1577Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
Description:
Columnist Wes Lawrence, visiting Southwest Harbor, writes about Wendell Gilley. Gilley's last name is misspelled "Gillie".
1576Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
Description:
Wendell Gilley meeting with National Wood Carvers Association officials Edwin Moore and Bernie Eilerman in his home in Southwests Harbor
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.
1570Nina Gormley and Wendell Gilley Museum Trustees with Whooping Cranes Sculpture
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • People
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Wendell Gilley Museum Director Nina Gormley and members of the museum's board of trustees standing in front of the museum with Whooping Cranes by Walter Matia, 1990.