Gilley Museum now exhibiting `Birds in Art’

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — “Birds in Art,” the exhibit of paintings and sculpture now on display at the Wendell Gilley Museum, in Southwest Harbor, is going into its last three weeks. The show will close Sept. 1. Sixty pieces by a variety of well-known wildlife artists are on display.

The show, which originated at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, has received national acclaim and an enthusiastic response from visitors to the Gilley Museum. A particular favorite has been the birch-wood burl sculpture “Whooper Swan Awakening to Fly Off to the Moon,” by Leo E. Osborne, a one-time Maine resident artist. “Ancient Icelanders thought (that was what these) great white birds did. … I wanted the same … magical lunar quality.”