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1544Saw-whet Owl
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Owl looking over left shoulder, perched on driftwood base. Inscribed "Made especially for Hilda + Hulda Bragdon , Saw whet owl" on underside of base ; signed W.H. Gilley and dated 1969.
1549Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Furnishings, Table, Workbench
Description:
Wendell Gilley converted a barber's chair into the work "bench" shown in this photograph taken in his workshop.
1551Herring Gull
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Open winged gull with metal legs and feet mounted on driftwood branch ; signed "Gilley" in black on top of base beneath gull's beak and dated 1962.
1565Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Events
  • People
Description:
Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show
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
1578Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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.
1581Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Events, Exhibitions
  • People
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.
1583Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • People
Description:
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.
1201Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Birds
Description:
Letter acknowledging return of a bob-white carving as well as discussion of solder and advice on where to get bass wood. Also included are sketches of the leg and foot of a Canada goose.
1280Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Dec. 1960
  • Image, Photograph
  • Birds
  • Carvings
  • People
Description:
Wendell Gilley in his workshop with carvings of cormorants, heron, and osprey.