Yellow-shafted Flicker

Identifier:
1504  
Accession #:
95.1.1
Title:
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Medium:
Polychromed Wood
Subject:
Description:
One of sixty-one carvings exhibited in a major museum retrospective "Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley" at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1976/77. Adult male northern flicker in a feeding position on driftwood mount ; glass eyes, cast lead feet with curved talons "gripping" the curves of the driftwood ; signed "Gilley" in black ink on lower left of the upper surface of the mount ; additionally signed on the flat underside of the base in three separate areas: "Yellow-shafted Flicker" and "By W.H. Gilley 1969" and "Made especially for Dr. & Mrs. J.L. Hollander."
Date:
1969
Location:
On View

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Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983), “Yellow-shafted Flicker,” Wendell Gilley Museum, accessed April 20, 2024, https://wgm.digitalarchive.us/items/show/514.Item 1504

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