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Description:: 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...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Whistling Swans

Description:: Lithograph print depicting two tundra swans, which at the time this artwork was created were known as whistling swans. This print, by wildlife artist Stanley Stearns, is the second edition of a design that was used as the 1966 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, colloquially known as a duck stamp. (Francis Lee Jaques had desig...
Creator:: Stearns, Stanley, 1926-2013
Created:: 1966
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Whistling Swans

Description:: "The Birds of Minnesota,√ì by Thomas Sadler Roberts, was published in 1932 by the University of Minnesota Press. Allan Cyril Brooks (1869-1946) was an ornithologist and artist who in addition to painting the plates for "The Birds of Minnesota,√ì contributed illustrations to ornithological publications and the "Birds of Western Canada,√ì "Birds o...
Creator:: Bell Museum of Natural History
Created:: 1932?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Page Count:: 2
Last Updated:: 2019-01-30