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.