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.
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.
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."
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.
Monochrome oil painting executed in grisaille (shades of gray.) Two male Greater Birds of Paradise perched on a branch, wings outstretched. Sketched-in, abstract background. Painted as one of several illustrations for the article "A Collector in the Land of the Birds of Paradise" in the November/December 1929 issue of "Natural History," the maga...
Oil sketch on unmounted canvas depicting two tree stumps among a stand of trees, visible only from trunk level. Color palette suggests a fall/autumn setting.
Oil painting on canvas depicting Logan Pass, Glacier Mountain Park. This painting is a small-scale version of the background Jaques painted for the Glacier Park Timberline diorama at the American Museum of Natural History. The last diorama he painted for the AMNH, the Timberline diorama was completed in 1954 on a freelance basis, several years a...
Oil painting of a group of five wolves running through snow, with dense forest in the background. This image of a wolf pack at full speed was reconstructed from the pattern of tracks Jaques followed along the shore of a frozen northern Minnesota lake. He had known the cries and trails of wolves from his early years in Aitkin and strongly advocat...
Oil painting of a round globe in a near-square canvas. The Americas are centered in the globe, with western Europe and Africa visible at right. Lines in blue, red, and purple cover the map, indicating the travels taken by Francis Lee Jaques [red], Florence Page Jaques [blue], and the couple's trips together [purple]. Whales, sharks, fish, and my...
Oil painting landscape with a dirt road leading through grassy, hilly fields, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance and a sky full of dramatic clouds. The foreground also features a magpie in flight. "The Road West" is set at some point along the road from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta.
Oil painting depicting a derelict barn in a grassy field at twilight (or possibly dawn), with an old-fashioned hay rake in the foreground. Flocks of geese dot the vivid yellow sky. Other features of old farms: two additional barns or outbuildings in the left distance, a windmill just behind the barn, and remnants of a fence on the right.
Painting of steel mills, locomotive engine, ore cars, two brightly-colored sedans, and pollution in the Duluth harbor area. Smokestacks belch smoke in the background, while the foreground is occupied by a dirty pond with old cars, tires, and other debris on its shores. Lettering across the top of the painting reads "The Mills of the Gods Grind S...