Scratchboard illustration of South America, showing animals superimposed on land mass and surrounding sea, roughly according to their geographic distribution. Animals depicted include capybara, guanaco, anteater, anaconda, manatee, trumpeter bird, monkey, harpy eagle, rhea, two types of penguins [Humbolt and Magellanic?], hump-backed whale, guan...
Print of the illustration "Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Rock Creek Park," a scratchboard created by Francis Lee Jaques for "Spring in Washington" by Louis J. Halle, Jr. (1947.) Print was one of a series of illustrations from this book that were published by the Audubon Naturalist Society of Washington, DC.
Collection of ten sheets, comprising seven drawings, two photographs of buildings, and one photograph of Francis Lee Jaques in uniform. This collection was created during Francis Lee Jaques's time in France with the US Army during World War I. Each item is mounted on one side of individual sheets of brown paper. It is unclear whether these were ...
Scratchboard drawing of three monkeys silhouetted in the branches of a tree.This image was an illustration for the book "South American Zoo" (Victor W. Von Hagen, 1946), the endpiece for Chapter 37, "Our Living South American Zoo." The illustration was intended for "South American Zoo" is virtually identical to the scratchboard. Pencil notations...
Print of an image of a family of wood ducks by Francis Lee Jaques. Ducklings are pictured in their nest in a tree trunk, in the process of jumping to the ground, and safely on the ground, where the mother duck waits. The background features a male wood duck in flight. Paper has been mounted to pressboard. This belongs to a group of three illustr...
Watercolor painting of a woodcock standing in profile, facing left, in a green landscape with grasses, leaves, and the bases of trees visible. The scene is enclosed in an ovoid vignette, with the caption "The Woodcock" painted underneath. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These ar...
Gouache painting for the cover of a magazine, from Francis Lee Jaques's time at the Duluth Photo Engraving company. Depicts a pair of moose quartered away, wading through water towards a forested bank. A painted placard occupies the lower left quadrant of the image and bears the legend "With Canoe and Paddle in" followed by a blank space for add...
Cover mockup for "Snowshoe Country" (1944), which was titled "Winter Wilderness" at the time this work was created. Shows three people snowshoeing through heavy snow.
Oil painting depicting a stream of blue and snow geese against a partly cloudy blue sky. The sky occupies the majority of the painting, with a narrow band at the bottom of the canvas showing prairie fields and ponds with hills in the far distance.
Pencil and pastel studies of the wings and beak of a greater snow goose. Sheet includes four separate drawings: two views of outstretched wing (from above and from below) executed in pencil and pastel; pencil drawing of head with open bill viewed from the side; pencil contour drawing of bill viewed from above.
Pen and ink drawing (resembling scratchboard) of a pair of American wigeons on water, with cattails in the background. This image was used as an illustration for the book "Out-door Reveries" (1920) by Francis Lee Jaques' father, Ephraim Jaques.
Watercolor painting of three wigeons, two male and one female, standing on the muddy bank of a body of water. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These are early, possibly childhood works by Francis Lee Jaques and may be adapted or copied from other sources. All fifteen paintings de...
Pencil studies of a whooping crane or cranes, drawing the bird in different positions. Some drawings are close-ups of parts of the bird. Left margin of paper is demarcated with a vertical line and contains pencil notes.
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