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You searched for: Date: 1970sSubject: ObjectSubject: People
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
David and Nelson Rockefeller
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1977
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
David and Nelson Rockefeller
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
David and Nelson Rockefeller holding the bald eagle David commissioned from Wendell Gilley as a gift for Nelson.
Rose Bernard
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1970 c.
Rose Bernard
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Rose Bernard (approximately age 25-30) standing next to four paintings hanging on wire display stands. Paintings of lighthouse, birds, truck, and trees.
Wendell Gilley with life-size wild turkey carving
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Brown - W. L. Brown
  • 1973
Description:
On reverse side of photograph: "Taken by W. L. Brown Summer of 1973"
Wendell Gilley with Great Horned Owl
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1972-06-30
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley standing next to a life size great horned owl carving. Also shown are carvings of a Canada goose, woodcock, and an unpainted pair of cormorants.
Wendell H. Gilley's workbench
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Furnishings, Table, Workbench
  • People
  • 1970 c.
Wendell H. Gilley's workbench
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Photograph of Wendell Gilley's workbench in his Southwest Harbor workshop
Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Advertising
  • Events
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1976
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Page from an unknown publication announcing Gilley's exhibit of bird carvings at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley Exhibit Sign
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1976
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Sign at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for Wendell Gilley's Downeast Bird Carvings exhibit, October 29, 1976 through January 9, 1977.
Wendell Holmes Gilley at Work on a Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1975
  • In Copyright
Description:
Wendell Gilley painting a Canada Goose. Reverse side marked: "W SW '75"
Downeast Bird Carvings Exhibit Catalog
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Catalog
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Peck - Robert M. Peck
  • 1976
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Catalog of an exhibition of Wendell Gilley's bird carvings held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from October 29, 1976 through January 9, 1977
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1978-11-06
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades
Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Object, Toy
  • People
  • Recreation
  • Edith Favour
  • 1974
Description:
Bulletin X of The Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. Illustrated by Alice Dengler.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Vise
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
This letter thanks Gilley for sending a vise. O'Brien also encloses correspondence with Byron Cheever about publishing Gilley's book.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-15
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Note from O'Brien included with a copy of a letter from Byron Cheever. O'Brien mentions having been asked by Peggy Rockefeller if Gilley would sell her a flock of geese.
Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Woodworking, Woodworking Vise
  • Other
  • People
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-04-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
This letter praises Wendell Gilley's inventiveness, his carving and his book . O'Brien refers to a vise for holding decoys and carvings for painting that Wendell includes in the book.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Other
  • People
  • Cheever - Byron Cheever
  • 1971-05-23
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Cheever writes that he has received the materials for Gilley's book and that he read the new chapter on decoys and thought it was well done. He also talks about meeting carver Harold Haertel in Chicago at a meeting of decoy collectors.
Wendell H. Gilley, September 1974
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1974-09
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley next to a shelf holding carving of Canada geese
Wendell H. Gilley Holding Eagle Carving and Miniature Mallard, Summer 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Kelly - Diane L.
  • 1971
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley standing in front of garage holding two carvings, an eagle and his first carving, a mallard made in 1930. On back of photo: "Wendell, Gilley, summer 1971, taken by Diane L. Kelly, his 1st & present bird in progress."
Wendell H. Gilley with Eagle, November 1970
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1970-11
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley standing next to unfinished half life size carved eagle
Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Oct. 1971
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1971 - 10
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley at work on a carving in his workshop.
Wendell H. Gilley with Osprey - 1972
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1972
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley holding carved osprey in a snow covered yard, Southeast Harbor, Maine
Ralph Warren Stanley Playing His Spurling Violin
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Object, Musical, Stringed Instrument, Fiddle, Violin
  • People
  • Richardson - Charles Richardson
  • 1975 c.
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated