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  • 20.01.018
1259Canvasback
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood base. Artist's stamp on bottom of base.
  • 96.2.12
1260Common Tern, Pair
  • Carving, Pair, 1/3 Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Birds painted in summer plumage. Bottom of driftwood base marked "Made for Hilda + Hulda Bragdon, Xmas 1971." Signed "Gilley" on right front of base.
  • 20.01.020
1261Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. No date
  • 20.01.021
1262Black Duck, Female
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Female preening on burl base. Signed "Gilley" on right front of base. Stamped "Gilley" on underside of base. No date
  • 89.3.19
1263Black-capped Chickadee
  • Carving, 1/2 Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Smooth oval pine disc base with gnarled driftwood root ; midway up the driftwood is mounted the bird, carved in characteristic seed-opening position with tail braced downward and bill pointed at ground ; glass eyes, wire legs, and metal feet grasping "branch." Signed "Gilley" on top edge of base. No date
  • 20.01.023
1264Black Capped Chickadee, Pair
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley"; no date
  • 20.01.024
1265Black Capped Chickadee, Pair
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Base covered with moss
  • 20.01.026
1267Green-winged Teal
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Relief of bird in flight; carved and painted detail; unsigned; not dated.
  • 20.01.027
1268Flying Mallard Relief
  • Carving, Miniature
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Painted board with miniature flying mallard attached. Inscribed on back "Given to J.E. Brown by Wendelll Gilley circ. 1936"; "Presented to the Gilley Museum July 1984."
  • 96.2.1
1270American Goldeneye Relief
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Very early Gilley diorama ; carved and painted American goldeneye against painted winter scene on board. Marked "Made about 1935 Wendell Gilley" on back. Signed "Gilley on bottom front.
  • 20.01.031
1272Mallard Pair
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; no date
  • 20.01.032
1273Laughing Gull
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley, '59" on driftwood base. Hook for hanging on back.
  • 89.3.1
1274Herring Gulls
  • Carving, Multiple Birds, Miniatures
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
L-shaped driftwood branch serves as base for three gulls, positioned (left to right) taking off, raising wings, standing erect ; birds show totally different bill carvings, and the similar but minutely different paint indicates a transitional period (1940's?); unsigned
  • 81.3.1
1275Black-capped Chickadee Pair
  • Carving, Pair, Almost Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Two chickadees, near life size, on driftwood, both with glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail ; both upright, left chickadee has head down. Signed, dated on rear of base "Gilley '58".
  • 20.01.035
1276Bald Eagle with Fish
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley '59" on driftwood base.
  • 20.01.036
1277Double-crested Cormorant, Pair
  • Carving, Pair
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gillely" on right front of driftwood base. Has wall hanger
  • 20.01.037
1278Bald Eagle
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. Driftwood base attached to sand covered oblong base
  • 20.01.038
1279Red Phalarope
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on carved oblong base; no date; marked on underside of base "female in breeding plumage"
  • 89.3.21
1281Pileated Woodpecker
  • Carving, 1/3 Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Adult male in a naturalistic, though simplified pose, mounted on the larger prong of a smooth, two-pronged driftwood branch ; ovoid gouge-carved pine base ; glass eyes, wire legs and broadly-spread toes gripping driftwood "tree". Signed "Gilley" on back of driftwood mount near the base. No date
  • 84.3.1
1282White-winged Crossbill Pair
  • Carving, Pair
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood base. No date
  • 89.3.3
1283Mourning Dove
  • Carving, 1/2 Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Resting bird, head slightly tucked, bill downwards, tail swept up and wing tips cropped; minimal carved detail, incised wings ; glass eyes, metal legs and feet with talons clutching downward on driftwood burl base. Signed "Gilley" on top of base, lower left; no date on piece but approximately 1948.
  • 20.01.042
1284Herring Gull Pair
  • Carving, Pair, Miniature
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed on bottom of base: "by W. H. Gilley" ; no date
  • 93.1.1
1285Pine Grosbeak, Female
  • Carving, Life-size
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base below bird's left wing. Gilley's stamp on bottom of base
  • 20.01.044
1286Pileated Woodpecker
  • Carving
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Inscribed "Pileated Woodpecker by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base ; no date
  • 96.2.10
1287Great Blue Heron
  • Carving, Miniature
  • Birds
  • Carvings
Description:
Figure permanently mounted on round footed base, intended to be covered with a glass dome. Top of base is a 3/4 inch diameter inner-ground of fine sand. Heron has cast lead legs and feet, lead-strip crest feathers, glass eyes. Signed "Gilley" on side of driftwood "stump" below left side of bird ; no date.