Foreground: Forest and small Goshawk painted on glass. The glass is painted black behind all the colors of the foreground forest and goshawk. Paintings on loan from the Univ. of Minnesota, Bell Museum. Display case: Jaques Art Center Collection
Original- Background: oil on canvas. Foreground: birch trees and buck painted on glass. The glass is painted black behind all the colors of the foreground birch trees and buck. Paintings on loan from U of M Bell Museum. Display case: Jaques Art Center Collection
Three copies of a print of "Golden Twilight," published by the Bell Museum in the 1990s. Each print is numbered: copy 1 is 317/750; copy 2 is 319/750; copy 3 is 320/750.
Poster of "Golden Twilight" by Francis Lee Jaques. This poster was sold at the Bell Museum gift shop at the same time as the limited edition print of the same painting, JC.2018.6.2.
High-quality reproduction of Francis Lee Jaques's watercolor study for Volume I, Plate 41 of "The Birds of Minnesota" (Thomas Sadler Roberts, 2 volumes, 1932.) Pairs of passenger pigeons and mourning doves perch on the twigs of a single branch.
Two copies of a print of "Picture Rock at Crooked Lake," a painting by Francis Lee Jaques owned by the Minnesota Historical Society. Prints were accompanied by an informational flyer, of which the Bell owns two copies (JC.2018.6.5a c.1-2.)
Three copies of a print of "Prairie Spring," published by the Bell Museum in the 1990s. Each print is numbered: copy 1 is 239/750; copy 2 is 234/750; copy 3 is 238/750.
Gouache painting on board depicting two coots at the edge of a body of water. They stand in front of a group of reeds, with trees silhouetted against a sunset in the far distance. The foreground coot stands in near-profile, facing left, while the second bird, slightly further down the shoreline, has stepped into the water with one leg and is low...
Two-sided pencil drawing. On front of sheet, pencil drawing of a bush or a segment of a tree, with needles rather than leaves. Pencil note indicates "Jones Beach." Reverse of sheet features a pencil drawing of sandy dunes and bushes.
Scratchboard depiction of a deserted lumber camp whose structures are falling apart, with three low buildings or sheds that have lost most of their roofs and some of their walls. In the foreground, two axes are stuck into a tree stump. A pole and a broken box lean against the stump.
Oil on masonite depicting African animals. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by a member or members of the Wenger family.
Pencil drawing of a tree with gnarled branches curved dramatically to the left, shaped by wind. This sketch is continued on another sheet, "Tree Sketch" (JC.74.3.182.)
Pencil drawing of a mountain range in the Alps, with the Matterhorn the main subject of the scene. This is number one in a series of four contiguous drawings of an Alpine panorama. The panorama was created in preparation for a diorama of the Birds of the Alps in the American Museum of Natural History's Birds of the World Hall. Like the other thr...
Pencil drawing of a mountain range in the Alps, with trees in foreground. This is number two in a series of four contiguous drawings of an Alpine panorama. The panorama was created in preparation for a diorama of the Birds of the Alps in the American Museum of Natural History's Birds of the World Hall. Like the other three drawings in the panora...
Pencil drawing of a mountain range in the Alps, with trees in foreground. This is number three in a series of four contiguous drawings of an Alpine panorama. The panorama was created in preparation for a diorama of the Birds of the Alps in the American Museum of Natural History's Birds of the World Hall. Like the other three drawings in the pano...
Pencil drawing of a mountain range in the Alps. This is number four in a series of four contiguous drawings of an Alpine panorama. The panorama was created in preparation for a diorama of the Birds of the Alps in the American Museum of Natural History's Birds of the World Hall. Like the other three drawings in the panoramic series, this image is...