Watercolor painting of seven wrens perching on leafy twigs. Clockwise from top center: Bewick's wren, Florida wren, house wren, marsh wrens, sedge wrens. Preparatory study for Arthur H. Howell, "Florida Bird Life" (1932, LIB.JC.HOW.1932), plate 50.
Oil painting of a winter landscape with leafless trees and a small stream. Undated, but likely an early work. Painted on a rough surface, possibly burlap.
Painting of an adult male deer in a snowy pine forest. Deer is dwarfed by trees. Appears to be the same location as in the duorama background "Pine Forest" (1944, JC.79.2.5).
Oil painting on canvas depicting Logan Pass, Glacier Mountain Park. This painting is a small-scale version of the background Jaques painted for the Glacier Park Timberline diorama at the American Museum of Natural History. The last diorama he painted for the AMNH, the Timberline diorama was completed in 1954 on a freelance basis, several years a...
Scratchboard image depicting a canoe floating at the edge of water, with a pair of paddles nearby leaning against a rocky outcrop. A few trees in distance.
Scratchboard image of a five men sitting near a cabin at water's edge. A houseboat floats nearby. A few logs, planks, and a log skid are scattered in the foreground.
Watercolor painting of a cobbled street in the village of Saint-Émilion, France, with prominent church tower or bell tower in background. Painted during Francis Lee Jaques's time in France during World War I.
Pencil drawing of rock cliffs, with field notes and color notations. Almost certainly created in preparation for a background for a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History, but the specific diorama has not been identified.
Pencil drawing of rocky cliff faces, with field notes and color notations. Likely preparatory drawing for a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
Pencil drawing of rock cliffs, with field notes and color notations. Almost certainly created in preparation for a background for a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History, but the specific diorama has not been identified.
Oil painting on board depicting a pair of ring-necked pheasants, male and female. Created for the magazine "Outdoor Life," and later published as an illustration in the book "Outdoor Life's Gallery of North American Game" (1946).
Scratchboard containing two separate images on one sheet: two pelicans in flight on the upper half of the sheet, and on the lower half, a puma crouching in branches.
Box with two decks of playing cards whose reverse features an image by Francis Lee Jaques of hummingbirds hovering around plants. The plastic lid of the wood box is also decorated with the image of hummingbirds.
Pencil drawing of Peruvian shoreline, delicately shaded, with field notes and notes on color. Created for the American Museum of Natural History while Jaques was traveling with the Barro Colorado (Panama) Expedition of 1925-1926.
Pencil sketches of rock formations from the Peruvian coastline, with field notes and notes on color. Belongs to a series of images drawn in preparation for a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
Pencil sketches of details from the Peruvian coastline, with field notes and notes on color. Belongs to a series of images drawn in preparation for a diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
Scratchboard depicting a pair of black-throated blue warblers perching in a tree. The male is perched on a branch, and the female sits in a nest nearby.
Watercolor painting of a lone wolf standing on the shore of a lake at night. Full moon and forested island in background. This is an early work by Francis Lee Jaques.
Pencil drawing of two lemmings in a barren landscape with distant mountains. Study for tree later used in Victor H. Cahalane, "The Mammals of North America" (1946), in the entry on "Chisel-Teeth," page 502.
Oil painting on masonite depicting a jackrabbit looking out towards a prairie. Painted for the magazine "Outdoor Life"; reproduced in "Outdoor Life's Gallery of North American Game."
Framed set of five small cards featuring artwork by Francis Lee Jaques. From left to right, the cards depict a walrus, a pair of canvasbacks, a sugar pine, a black bear, and a herring gull.
Watercolor painting of an iron gate and stone gateposts. Spindly, bare tree branches hang down toward the gate. Female figure half-hidden behind right gatepost. Painted during Francis Lee Jaques's time in France during World War I.
Unsigned proof print (a test run made by the printers) after a Jaques scratchboard depicting a pine forest with two deer bounding away into the middle distance.
Watercolor painting of a single chickadee perched on a small holly wreath. Wreath is adorned with a large red bow and hangs on a background striped brown and red.
Oil painting on masonite depicting an Alaskan brown bear standing in a stream, catching salmon. Mountainous background. Painted for Outdoor Life; reproduced in Outdoor Life's Gallery of North American Game, page 92. Gift of Jerry and Cherie Holm.