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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 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
Oil painting of a train speeding across a hilly landscape, towards snowy mountains in the distance. Two large plumes of smoke, one white and one gray. Only the engine and part of the first car have entered the frame; the engine is marked "2053" and the car is marked with the logo and name of the "Great Northern."
Print, after original oil painting, of a flock of white ibises circling over a wetland river, with storm clouds in the background. Handwritten on back: "Audubon House (?), n.y.c."
Pencil drawing of seventeen birds representing three species. white hawk drawing (seven uppermost sketches) have some shading, while screaming hawk and Mexican cormorant drawings are contour drawings. Left sixth of paper demarcated with a vertical line, with extensive pencil notes that identify birds or give information on color and behavior.
Watercolor painting of six white-fronted geese standing or sitting on the banks of a marsh. Gray and cloudy skies, with three sets of geese flying in V formation. Image enclosed in a rectangular painted frame. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These are early, possibly childhood w...
Pencil drawing of White Ash tree. Study for tree later used in Victor H. Cahalane, "The Mammals of North America" (1946), in the entry on "Beaver," page 453.
Watercolor painting of several goldeneyes (here called whistle-wings) in a gray winter landscape. Three birds are floating in the river that runs through the scene; a pair is swooping down to the water, and a second pair sits on the bank in the foreground. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with round...
Oil painting of a train traveling across a landscape from right to left, with a large plume of smoke. Dramatic hills in background, water in foreground. A bird skims along the surface of the water, paralleling the movement of the train.
Pencil sketch of a South Pacific island landscape. A rocky foreground shoreline stretches across the page, with a rocky cliff or mountain on the right side of the image. Extensive notes indicate color and tone and identify features of the scene; image also labeled throughout with numbers 1-6. Drawn during the 1934-1935 Templeton Crocker expediti...
Pencil drawing of the Unitarian church building in Geneseo, Illinois, in two-point perspective. Drawn by Francis Lee Jaques at six years old, in 1893 or 1894, "Lee Jaques" appears in large, three-dimensional letters running the length of ground beside the church, as if planted like a flower bed. A newspaper clipping is attached to the lower righ...
Print after a scratchboard depicting a pair of female white-tailed deer, printed in dark brown on a beige background. This image belongs to a series of four screenprints, each printed in two colors, after scratchboards by Francis Lee Jaques. The Jaques Art Center owns the original artworks and produced the prints. T"Canoe Country" (Florence Page...
Two sketches of a prairie landscape, preparatory for a diorama background. Sketches labeled 7 and 6 (upper drawing) and 8 and 7 (lower drawing), indicating sequence of the drawings. Handwritten notes indicate species of trees, which are willows and cottonwoods. This sketch, along with four others, may be preparatory sketches for the Snow Goose d...
Two sketches of a prairie landscape, preparatory for a diorama background. Sketches labeled 5 and 4 (upper drawing) and 6 and 5 (lower drawing), indicating sequence of the drawings. Handwritten notes indicate landscape and man-made features. This sketch, along with four others, may be preparatory sketches for the Snow Goose diorama at the Bell M...