41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
41 cut-out drawings of birds, pencil on paper. All birds are waterfowl, mainly ducks, with a few geese and swans. Cream, brown, and dark gray-brown paper. Many cutouts have adhesive tape on them, or tape residue. Likely created for the Bell Museum's "Snow Geese" and "Swans" dioramas.
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.
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.
Pencil drawing of a section of an alder tree consisting of multiple small branches and twigs, possibly partially submerged. Handwritten notes on upper center and center right: "#M-6" and "Alder - Gunflint - Oct 30 '43." This is almost certainly a study for the Moose diorama at the Bell Museum, which is also set at Gunflint Lake and was completed...
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...
Watercolor painting on illustration board depicting four golden plovers in flight. The outspread wings of the foreground bird face the viewer, showing orange and gold plumage, while the three other birds, slightly more distant, are oriented so that their undersides face the viewer. No background or setting indicated.
Watercolor painting of four American Merganser (also known as common mergansers), two male and two female, at the edge of a stylized pool of water. One male and female pair floats in the water, the second male is at the water's edge, and the second female is crouched in the foreground, in profile, facing right. Image is enclosed in a rectangular...
Pencil studies of a male American scoter (now called a black scoter.) Four separate drawings; from top to bottom: outline of bird with one extended, shaded wing, single extended shaded wing, contour drawing of head viewed from the side, contour drawing of bill viewed from above. Left third of paper delimited with a vertical line, with notes on s...
Scratchboard illustration of anaconda on shore with reeds stalking two capybaras in water. Published in "South American Zoo" (Victor W. Von Hagen, 1946), page 133.
Oil painting of a soaring Andean condor; viewer is looking down on the condor and on a sandy beach below. A second condor is visible at a lower elevation, to the left of the scene.
Scratchboard illustration of the plant "Androsace septentrionalis." Illustration was used in the book "As Far as the Yukon" by Florence Page Jaques (1951), page 151. There is a small illustration of a crow [?] on a branch in upper left of this board. This bird does not appear in the final book illustration.
Pencil drawing of an Arctic landscape with scrub bushes and distant mountains, likely from the 1928 Stoll-McCracken expedition to the Arctic led by the American Museum of Natural History, though the precise location is unknown. Part 1 of 3.
Pencil drawing of an Arctic landscape with scrub bushes and distant mountains, likely from the1928 Stoll-McCracken expedition to the Arctic led by the American Museum of Natural History, though the precise location is unknown. Part 2 of 3.
Pencil drawing of an Arctic landscape with scrub bushes and distant mountains, likely from the 1928 Stoll-McCracken expedition to the Arctic led by the American Museum of Natural History, though the precise location is unknown. Part 3 of 3.
Oil on masonite depicting animals from Asia. 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 Mr. Jerry A. and Mrs. Sonja H. Wenger in honor of Wendy Wenger.
Oil painting on canvas depicting an aspen forest on a sunny fall day. Several trees with bright yellow leaves in foreground, with pond beyond. Perspective is from slightly above the scene, so the horizon is at the midline of the canvas. This is the background of one of the eight "duoramas" that Francis Lee Jaques created for the Bell Museum in 1...
Oil on masonite depicting animals of Australia. 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 Patricia Young in Memory of Mrs. Edith Cochrane.
Pastel drawing of a pair of wood ducks, male and female, tied together by a foot, hanging head-down. The underside of the female duck is facing toward the viewer, while the male duck is in profile. This is an early drawing by Jaques, created when he was approximately 13-14.
Print entitled "Bald Eagle over Mount Vernon," after a scratchboard by Francis Lee Jaques used to illustrate "Spring in Washington" by Louis J. Halle, Jr. (1947.) This print is part of a set of four published by the Audubon Naturalist Society of Washington, DC, an organization that owned the original scratchboards. Image depicts a bald eagle fly...
Pencil drawing of a wood-burning barrel stove. A kettle and lidded pot (Dutch oven) sit on top of the stove; a door-puller and two cut logs lay at the stove's feet. A handwritten note at upper right reads "Barrel Stove Gunflint", referring to Gunflint Lake, MN. Reverse side of sheet has a small sketch of an antler or antlers.
Scratchboard illustration depicting several caribou in profile, moving as a herd from right to left. In foreground, the ground bears dozens of caribou tracks.
Pencil sketch of two trees, a hard maple and a basswood of slightly larger diameter. No leaves visible; only the bottom half or two-thirds of the trees are pictured.
Pencil landscape drawing of several large old beech trees. The trunk and larger branches of the trees are marked B1 through B7. Drawing includes a pencil border designating the bottom margin of the drawing, a vertical line through the sheet, and several arrows pointing to the borders of the scene. This drawing is either a study for the American ...
Pencil drawing of the base of a tree from two angles, with key, and many measurements of length and angles. Reverse of sheet has same drawings, traced. This drawing depicts the trees in the American Museum of Natural History's English Bird Group taxidermy display, in preparation for the creation of that display. The English Bird Group portrays a...
Pencil drawing of the base of a tree from two angles, with key, and many measurements of length and angles. Reverse of sheet has same drawings, traced. This drawing depicts the trees in the American Museum of Natural History's English Bird Group taxidermy display, in preparation for the creation of that display. The English Bird Group portrays a...
Scratchboard illustration of female and male bell birds on branch with male vocalizing/displaying. Chapter XXII (22) header illustration for "South American Zoo" (Victor W. Von Hagen, 1946.)
Oil painting of two bighorn sheep in front of sheer cliffs and distant mountain peaks. Painted for publication in "Outdoor Life's Gallery of North American Game" (1946.)
Pencil contour drawings of 17 birds representing four species: Phoethornis longirostris, Thalurania colombica, motmot, and little blue heron. Left sixth of paper demarcated with a vertical line, with notes that indicate species, color details, and details of behavior.
Pencil drawings of twenty-one birds; some are little more than silhouette outlines, most are contour drawings, and a few are shaded. Each drawing is labeled, 1 through 6 and x, y, z. Left sixth of paper demarcated with a vertical line, with extensive pencil notes that identify birds and/or give information on color and behavior. Birds represente...
Oil study of bird heads, bills, and feet, primarily those of toucans, on board primed taupe. Studies consist of four birds' heads, two bills (one with an accompanying eye sketch), and two feet.
Oil painting on canvas depicting a grassy plain with the meander of a river running across it, entering the scene at the lower right. Several bison are visible in the distance on the left side of the scene. Sunny, autumn day; a tall elm tree in the foreground has only a few leaves. This is the background of one of the eight "duoramas" that Franc...
Watercolor painting of a single bittern, standing in profile, head raised up. Painted against light green background and stand of green grasses, enclosed in oval. This is an early, possibly childhood work by Francis Lee Jaques and may be adapted or copied from other sources.
Trompe l'oeil watercolor painting of bitterns; the image is painted to look like six loose and curling sheets of blue-green paper, tacked together and overlapping. Each 'sheet' is painted with a bittern in a different pose. The group of six illustrations is cut out and mounted on a light brown sheet. This is an early, possibly childhood work by ...
Watercolor painting of two Black-bellied plovers, facing left, with outstretched wings; they are either taking off or landing. Water and reeds in background. 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 cop...
Two-sided pencil drawing. Front: pencil drawing of black cherry tree or two trees, viewed from partway up tree to top of tree. Leaves only drawn on one small branch at upper left. Notations indicate the height of the partial tree is 15', with diameter of trunks 1 1/2" and 1 3/4". Reverse: rough sketch of tulip tree branch.
Two-sided pencil drawing. Front: pencil drawing of black cherry tree or two trees, viewed from partway up tree to top of tree. Leaves only drawn on one small branch at upper left. Notations indicate the height of the partial tree is 15', with diameter of trunks 1 1/2" and 1 3/4". Reverse: rough sketch of tulip tree branch.
Scratchboard illustration depicting a black duck taking off from a northwoods pond. Water droplets visible dripping from duck's tail and extended foot. Conifers, some almost bare in background. Reedy grasses surround dark pond which shows ripples.
Oil on masonite depicting black swans flying from right to left. 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 Dr. Manouch and Mrs. Peggy Azad.
Oil on masonite depicting black swans flying from left to right. 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 Dr. Samuel and Mrs. Carol Kirkwood in memory of Richard H...
Watercolor painting of several greater scaups, here identified by their colloquial name of bluebills. Two scaups are floating in water, enclosed in a stylized vignette. To the upper right of the vignette are painted five scaups in flight. The image is in shades of black, white, gray, and the gray-blue of the ducks' beaks. This artwork belongs to...
Watercolor painting of a pair of blue-winged teal, male and female. The two ducks face each other, in profile, in front of a stand of tall grasses or reeds. 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 copi...
Watercolor painting of a pair of bobolinks. The male, in the foreground, is calling while coming in for a landing on a leafy twig. In the middle distance, a perching female looks off to the right. Trees and sunny sky in distance. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These are early, ...
Scratchboard illustration of a bobolink, flying over fields, seen from a bird's-eye view. Illustrated in "John Burroughs' America" (Farida A. Wiley, 1951), page 214.
Bookplate for the library of the Department of Birds, American Museum of Natural History, featuring a bird of prey perched on a branch. From a pen and ink drawing or scratchboard by Francis Lee Jaques.
Pencil study of a leafy branch of a plant located, as inscription below drawing suggests, at the border of a cypress swamp. Leaves are labeled "B", "T", or "D", though there is no accompanying key. A small amount of Spanish moss hangs from one twig. This preparatory drawing matches the plants in Arthur H. Howell, "Florida Bird Life" (1932), Plat...
Pencil, gouache, and watercolor study on paper depicting a horizontal band, outlined in white, within which are pictured three soaring white geese or swans. The birds are portrayed from an angle slightly below and to the side; their stomachs are not quite parallel to the surface of the paper. The ends of their wings are cropped by the limits of ...
Oil painting depicting Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island viewed from the sea near the shore, looking up at beach and grassy cliffs. This painting was likely created when Jaques traveled with the American Museum of Natural History's 1934-35 Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition on the schooner "Zaca." The Bell collection includes numerous pencil sketche...
Pencil study of a branch, inside a rectangle delineated with pencil outline. A few ends of the branch extend outside the pencil outline, where their continuation is indicated with dashed lines. There are extensive coded notations across the image, with a key to coding in upper right of sheet. This is a study for the large branch in the foregroun...
Brochure for a regional Minnesota planning board. Consisting of a folded sheet of 11x17" paper, the entire outside of the item is printed with a scene by Jaques, derived from either a scratchboard or a pen and ink drawing. The scene depicts a Minnesota landscape with trees, two figures, and three canoes in the foreground, a lake or pond in the m...
Pencil and gouache studies of a male bufflehead, all life size. Three drawings on sheet: a small pencil drawing of a bill, seen from above; a pencil and gouache drawing of an extended wing; and a drawing of the bird in profile. Wing and body drawings are unfinished at the extremities.
Print of an image of three buffleheads by Francis Lee Jaques. All three birds are perched on the branches of a tree, with no background indicated. Paper has been mounted to pressboard. This belongs to a group of three illustrations of ducks, each mounted on board. Their date and origin has not been determined.
Oil painting of a bull elk in a mountainous landscape. Painted for publication in Outdoor Life, and published in "Outdoor Life's Gallery of North American Game" (1946.)
Pencil drawing of the upper half a burr oak, drawn from top of branches to the beginning of the trunk. No leaves shown. Pencil borders drawn on three sides of the image, though these lines are drawn through some of the branches rather than forming a barrier.
Grayscale (grisaille) watercolor painting of seven canada geese standing and feeding in a corn field, in which the corn has been cut and placed in sheaves. The style indicates that this is an early work by the artist.
Print of the illustration "Canada Geese over Washington," 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.
Two copies of a print of a Francis Lee Jaques image of Canada geese. The original artwork is owned by the Jaques Art Center, who also published the print. Copes are numbered; copy 1 is 18/750, copy 2 is 19/750.