1 - 13 of 13 results
Refine Your Search
Subject
- Events (1)
- Object✖
- Art (10)
- Sculpture (10)
- Carving (8)
- Construction (2)
- Other Object (1)
- Sign (1)
- Woodworking (1)
- Organizations (2)
- People (5)
- Places (1)
Type
- Document✖
- Advertising (1)
- Poster (1)
- Correspondence (9)
- Letter (1)
- Manuscript (1)
- Recording (1)
- Video Recording (1)
- Specification (1)
Place
- Mount Desert (1)
- none (12)
Date
- 1980s✖
Contributor
| Title | Type | Subject | Creator | Date | Place | Rights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|
|
|
|  Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society. | ||
| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|
|
|
| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen. | ||
| Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|
|
|
| Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes. | ||
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 . | |
| Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum 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 | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|  Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection. | |
| Mount Desert Bicentennial Art Posters Northeast Harbor Library |
|
|
|
|  Mount Desert Bicentennial Art Posters Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mt. Desert Elementary School winners of student art contest to celebrate the Bicentennial of Mount Desert. Winners were (a) Lelah Cole (6th grade), (b) Monica Hanson (grade 4/5), (c) Erin Morse Fernald (grade 3). Event date was August 5th 1989 in Northeast Harbor. | ||
| Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider Wendell Gilley Museum |
|
|
|
|
|  Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |