Painted glass foreground for the duorama "Pine Forest" (JC.79.2.5.) Two trees and two male caribou are painted in oil, with the rest of the glass left transparent. Wood frame. This is the foreground for one of the eight "duoramas" that Francis Lee Jaques created for the Bell Museum in 1945. Jaques invented the duorama technique. In his duoramas,...
Oil painting on canvas depicting a dense pine forest and snowy, flat ground. No sky visible. Foreground is in shadow, but light shines on the tree trunks and snow on the center of the painting. Jaques originally painted a herd of caribou moving through the trees. He then must have changed his mind and painted them out, but ghostly shadows (penti...
Oil painting on canvas depicting an oak savanna with several oak trees in middle distance and background, pond in foreground. Sunny sky. This is the background of one of the eight "duoramas" that Francis Lee Jaques created for the Bell Museum in 1945. Jaques invented the duorama technique. In his duoramas, each oil painting background was joined...
Oil painting on canvas depicting cedar bog with a moose standing at the center of the image, facing left, at the banks of a pond or stream. The foreground is dominated by a large, gnarled tree with many exposed roots. This is the background of one of the eight "duoramas" that Francis Lee Jaques created for the Bell Museum in 1945. Jaques invente...
Oil painting on canvas depicting a flooded forest and bird of several species: ducks, herons, egrets. A narrow spit of land with four trees rooted on it spans the middle ground, and the birds are flying, standing, and perching in and around these trees. The trees are also contain many herons' nests. This is the background of one of the eight "du...
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
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.
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...
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...