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...
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...
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, ...
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.
Watercolor painting of canvasbacks, Four ducks are in flight over water, against a grayscale landscape background. In foreground, a small rectangle is painted in color, depicting male and female canvasbacks at the edge of water. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These are early, p...
Watercolor painting of a single chickadee perched on a small holly wreath. Wreath is adorned with a large red bow and hangs on a background striped brown and red.
Watercolor painting of a male mallard standing on one leg in snow at the edge of a body of water. "DECEMBER" painted across the image in block letters, with snow on top of the letters. This is an early, possibly childhood work by Francis Lee Jaques and may be adapted or copied from other sources.
Watercolor painting of a single duck hunter in a canoe among reeds. There are mallard decoys floating around his canoe, and more inside it. He is reaching behind himself for a gun. Three ducks in flight in the distance. The style and signature indicate that this is an early work by the artist, and may be a copy of another work.
Original watercolor (watercolor on illustration board) painting for the 1940 Federal Duck Stamp, featuring a pair of black ducks in flight, with reeds behind them. Matted with a copy of the published stamp, JC.2018.1.15.
Watercolor painting of an iron gate and stone gateposts. Spindly, bare tree branches hang down toward the gate. Female figure half-hidden behind right gatepost. Painted during Francis Lee Jaques's time in France during World War I.
Watercolor painting depicting five golden plovers, all in profile, facing left, walking across a ground of loosely sketched grasses. Dark, featureless background. Image is enclosed in a narrow, rectangular painted frame. This artwork belongs to a series of fifteen unsigned watercolors on white paper with rounded edges. These are early, possibly ...
Watercolor painting of three green-winged teals on the banks of a lake. Two males and one female, all in profile. 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. Image is enclosed in a rectangular painted frame, but the tail of the duck...
Watercolor and pastel image of a female green-winged teal. The bird is on its back, it head turned in profile, with its left wing crooked and its right wing stretched out over its head to display all feathers. Its lack of sophistication and its unusual signature marks this as a very early work by Jaques, likely from his childhood.