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Strangler Fig, Monstera, Vines
Description:
Pencil drawing of a strangler fig, over which multiple types of vines and a Monstera plant are climbing. Several vines labeled "(1)." A few light pencil drawings indicate additional trees in the background.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1925 - 1926?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Strangler Fig, Monstera, Vines
Strawberries, Mulberry & Walnut Plate Book
Creator:
Farmers Nursery Co
Created:
1916
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Andersen Horticultural Library.
Page Count:
8
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Strawberries, Mulberry & Walnut Plate Book
Study for Bell Museum Moose Diorama
Description:
From accession sheet: "Pencil sketch - study for diorama of moose in Bell Museum." This is a crisp pencil contour drawing depicting the entirety of the landscape background for the Gunflint Lake moose diorama. Pencil notes on the drawing indicate numbers of detail drawings, #M-1 through #M-7. Additional notes indicate artificial water level and ...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1942 - 1943
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Study for Bell Museum Moose Diorama
Study for Leopard Diorama
Description:
Oil on canvas board by Clarence C. Rosenkranz, an artist with whom Francis Lee Jaques studied in Duluth and who, like, Jaques, painted diorama backgrounds for the American Museum of Natural History. This painting, depicting a dense jungle with a rocky foreground, was a study for the background of the Leopard diorama at the American Museum of Nat...
Creator:
Rosenkranz, Clarence Clark, 1871-1959
Created:
1928
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Study for Leopard Diorama
Swimming Moose's Head, Bulrushes and Ripples
Description:
Two pencil drawings on sheet. The upper half of the sheet features a drawing is a semi-abstract drawing of bulrushes, reflected ripples, and curved lines. The lower half is taken up by a quick sketch of a moose swimming, with only the back of its antlered head visible. A few quick lines indicate ripples of the moose moving through water.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Swimming Moose's Head, Bulrushes and Ripples
Taipee Valley, Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas
Description:
Gridded drawing of a mountainous Nuku Hiva [previously Nuka Hiva] island landscape mounted on board. Reverse of board is stamped "Doubleday and Company, Inc." and has "Sketch" written in pen.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1934?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
Taipee Valley, Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas
The Art of Francis Lee Jaques [poster]
Description:
Exhibition poster for "The Art of Francis Lee Jaques, "a major exhibition of Jaques's work at the Bell Museum in 1972. Features a detail of canvasback ducks from a Francis Lee Jaques scratchboard not owned by the Bell.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1972
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Art of Francis Lee Jaques [poster]
The Canada Goose
Description:
Watercolor painting of a single Canada goose, standing in profile, facing right. Enclosed in an oval frame, with a background of a river or lake and a flying "V" of birds in distance. 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...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Canada Goose
The Garden Wall, Glacier National Park
Description:
Pencil drawing of "The Garden Wall," a series of talus slopes and cliff faces in Glacier National Park, Montana. The drawing is highly detailed and is covered in letters (BG, D, DG, G, P, S, ST, T, and X) that indicate details of color and texture; the key to the letters is written out in the upper left of the sheet. Jaques often used these 'col...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1954?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Garden Wall, Glacier National Park
The Horned Grebe
Description:
Watercolor painting of three horned grebes: two floating in water (one with head raised, one with head tucked back in its wing) and one in flight just above the two floating birds. Lemon yellow light from a sunset or sunrise silhouettes distant trees and other landscape features. Scene is enclosed in a parallelogram. This artwork belongs to a se...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Horned Grebe
The Jack Rabbit
Description:
Color print of Francis Lee Jaques's painting "The Jack Rabbit," an oil painting created for the magazine "Outdoor Life." The original painting was created in 1946 and is now owned by the Jaques Art Center; the print is undated. Depicts a jackrabbit looking out over a landscape of grassy fields and rolling hills.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Jack Rabbit
The King's Tomb, Mangareva
Description:
Landscape, oil on canvas, depicting a high mountain crag in the background, and in the foreground a white mausoleum. The mausoleum, part of St. Pierre Cemetery, is the resting place of Joseph Gregorio II, the last king or "Akariki" (paramount chief) of the island of Mangareva, and other Gambier Islands. Two other grave markers are also visible n...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1934
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The King's Tomb, Mangareva
The Oceans
Description:
Oil on masonite. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by Mr. Jerry A. and Mrs. Sonja H. Wenger in Honor of Kari Wenger.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Oceans
The Old West Passes [print]
Description:
Print of the Francis Lee Jaques painting "The Old West Passes," published and sold by "Ducks Unlimited." Numbered 256/1000.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Old West Passes [print]
The Old West Passes [print]
Description:
Three copies of a print of "The Old West Passes." Print belongs to a series created by the Bell Museum in collaboration with the Jaques Art Center. Each print is numbered: copy 1 is 4/500; copy 2 is 6/500; copy 3 is 8/500.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
2003
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Old West Passes [print]
The Outer Beach
Description:
Oil painting depicting ducks (scaups) flying over a beach.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1935?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Outer Beach
The Shape of Things [poster]
Description:
Poster advertising the book "The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques" by Patricia Condon Johnston. Poster was related to the release of the book, which was published in 1994. Image on the book cover is "Mink in Snow" (c. 1950, JC.85.1.1.)
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Shape of Things [poster]
The Shoveller
Description:
Watercolor painting of a pair of northern shovelers, male and female, here identified as "shoveller." The female stands and the male crouches against a dark green 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 ...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Shoveller
The Travels of Florence and Lee Jaques on Land and Sea
Description:
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...
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1940 - 1949?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The Travels of Florence and Lee Jaques on Land and Sea
The World
Description:
Oil on masonite depicting the globe. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by the White Bear Unitarian Church.
Creator:
Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:
1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:
2019-04-22
The World