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Accession # | Identifier | Title | Type | Subject | |
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| 1645 | Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler |
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| Description: Published: Spanish Fork, Utah : Hillcrest Publications, c1984 Inscription to the museum by the author on half title page. |
| 1642 | Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide |
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| Description: Published: Southwest Harbor, Maine : Publisher's Northeast. Inscription to Nina Gormley by the author on title page. |
| 1347 | Canada Goose |
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| 1150 | Woodcock |
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| 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. |
1532 | King Eider |
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| Description: King Eider on post ; painted sheet metal feet ; "Gilley" signature and date engraved on bottom of bird ; bird detaches from post | |
| 1285 | Pine Grosbeak, Female |
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| Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base below bird's left wing. Gilley's stamp on bottom of base |
| 1472 | Common Eider, Male |
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| 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. |
| 1297 | Bufflehead |
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| Description: Male bufflehead in adult plumage, swimming position ; head withdrawn and turned slightly to the left ; glass eyes, matte black, white, greys with minimal body detail ; blending of red/orange on head behind white wedge.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". |
| 1296 | Bufflehead |
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| 1249 | Goldfinch |
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| 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. |
1506 | Wendell Gilley in front of new Wendell Gilley Museum building |
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| Description: Wendell Gilley at construction site of new museum building | |
1512 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 |
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| Description: Letter mentions meetings of the Mount Desert Island Bird Club and MDI Hospital Auxiliary being held at the Gilley Museum. Enclosed with the letter is a Polaroid photo of an unpainted eagle carving. Wendell also mentions working on two life-size grouse . | |
1202 | Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley |
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| Description: Written on museum letterhead, this letter describes the opening of the Wendell Gilley Museum and mentions Wendell Gilley's donation of his carvings to the museum | |
1513 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 |
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| Description: Letter mentions receiving a bird book from the Whitlocks. It also talks about working on carvings of an eagle with a fish and a ruffed grouse with spread tail and another taking off in flight. Enclosed with the letter are drawings of male and female swimming buffleheads. | |
1574 | Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980. |
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| 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. | |
1543 | Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984. |
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| Description: Article from the Bangor Daily News reporting on a donation of Wendell Gilley bird carvings by artist Ethel Mae James to the museum | |
1573 | Bald Eagle |
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| Description: Eagle standing over fish. Signed "Gilley" on front of base; inscribed "Bald Eagle 1982 by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. Metal fish is removeable. | |
1568 | Long-billed Curlew |
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| Description: Snapshot of curlew carved by Wendell Gilley placed on a coffee table. "Addie's Xmas present" written on reverse side of photograph | |
1563 | Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck |
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| Description: 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. | |
1562 | Wendell H. Gilley outside his workshop, fall 1981 |
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| Description: Snapshot of Wendell Gilley standing at the door of his workshop ; photographer unknown | |
1560 | Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day |
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| Description: Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day. | |
1553 | University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award to Wendell H. Gilley |
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| Description: Distinguished achievement award recognizing Wendell Gilley's accomplishments presented posthumously at University of Maine at Orono commencement exercises on May 14, 1983. | |
1554 | University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award Citation |
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| Description: Citation honoring Wendell Gilley read at University of Maine, Orono Commencement May 14, 1983 | |
1539 | Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day |
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| Description: The Gilleys viewing exhibits followed by Steven Rockefeller | |
1529 | Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981 |
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| Description: Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley in his workshop working on an osprey carving | |
1528 | Nina Gormley, February 1981 |
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| Description: Nina Z. Gormley with sound recording gear in Wendell Gilley's workshop | |
1527 | Arnold T. Melbye, February 1983 |
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| Description: Decoy carver Arnold T. Melbye watching Wendell Gilley film on television at the home of Anne Small in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts | |
| 1359 | Woodcock |
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| Description: Adult woodcock with feet stretching downward over face of the domed burl base ; head erect facing straight ahead with long bill pointed downward ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Signed "Gilley '80" on right side of base ; Marked "Woodcock by W.H. Gilley 1980" on underside of base. |
1496 | Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day |
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| Description: The Gilleys with Steven Rockefeller looking at miniature carvings in a round display case | |
1498 | Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day |
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| Description: Addie Gilley examines carving of herons in display case at the museum's opening day. | |
1493 | Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981 |
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| Description: Guests of honor, Wendell and Addie Gilley cut the ribbon on the museum's opening day. | |
1495 | Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum |
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| Description: Wendell Gilley waves as Addie enters the front door of the new museum | |
1494 | Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day |
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| Description: Wendell and Addie Gilley, guests of honor at the museum's opening day, walk up the front walk | |
1480 | Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet |
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| Description: The published version of this draft appeared with the title "A Visit with Wendell Gilley, A Legend in the Carving World" in the National Carver's Museum publication, The Mallet. The author indicates that in Nov. 1979 Wendell told him about the planned building of the Wendell Gilley Museum. | |
1353 | Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft |
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| Description: This letter is a reply to the Gilley Museum Director's request for a garden to be donated by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. It also mentions a carving of three gulls on a driftwood based that Mrs. Bancroft commissioned from Wendell Gilley. | |
1410 | Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 |
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| Description: Letter describes Mr. Silver's visit to Elmer Crowell's workshop where he purchased several miniature bird carvings, and his subsequent visit to Wendell Gilley's workshop. Enclosed are photographs of a greater yellowlegs and a duck carved by Crowell. Silver also describes Wendell Gilley's trip to Abercrombie and Fitch where he was inspired to start bird carving. | |
| 1372 | Chickadee |
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| Description: Signed "Gilley '81" on right side of carved oblong base. Artist's stamp on underside of base |
1365 | Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 |
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| Description: The letter writer is asking for more information on Wendell Gilley after watching a Boston television program profiling him. She also mentions owning a Gilley carving of a mallard pair. | |
1354 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 |
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| Description: Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection. | |
| 1306 | Atlantic Puffin |
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| Description: Signed "Gilley" on left front of carved wood base ; marked "8/11/82, To the Whitlocks in appreciation, Wendell Gilley" |
1196 | Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider |
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| Description: Letter to the editor of the Wendell Gilley Museum's publication, The Eider, from James C. Collins after learning of Wendell Gilley's death | |
| 1151 | Woodcock |
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| Description: Life size; adult, crouched, no base; glass eyes, metal feet, mainly painted detail. Stamped "W.H. Gilley" on underside between feet. |
| 1146 | Golden Eagle |
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| Description: Approx. 1/3 life size; adult standing erect on driftwood base attached to oblong carved wooden base, head up, turned to right, beak open, tongue out; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail. Signed "Gilley" on base. Marked " Golden Eagle made for Addie Gilley by Wendell Gilley 1980" on underside of base. |