Title	Type	Subject	Creator	Date	Place	Rights
Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum	Reference	People				In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted	Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Wendell Gilley Museum Identifier: wgm-1002 Type: Reference Subject: People Description: Wendell Gilley is a name well known among carvers and carving collectors. Author of The Art of Bird Carving: A Guide to a Fascinating Hobby, one of the earliest instructional books on the subject, Gilley was a pioneer in the field of decorative bird carving. By his estimate, he created “ten thousand birds of pine and paint” between 1931 and 1983. (Gilley also loved alliteration; it should be noted that most of his carvings were made of basswood.) [show more]

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