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Description:: Watercolor painting of two pairs of mallards floating among stalks of wild rice. "OCTOBER" painted across the image in block letters. This is an early, possibly childhood work by Francis Lee Jaques and may be adapted or copied from other sources. Image is mounted on brown paper; slots have been cut in the paper, and the edges of the painted shee...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Old Bull Moose

Description:: Oil painting depicting a single bull moose looking out over a foggy lake.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1966
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Opossum

Description:: Pencil drawing of an opossum standing on a branch or log, facing to the left, its tail wrapped around branching twig. A few very faint pencil lines indicate borders of scene. Preparatory drawing for a scratchboard illustration published in Victor H. Cahalane's "Mammals of North America" (1947), p. 105.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1947?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Man portaging canoe over bedrock. This print is part of a series of prints after Jaques scratchboards published in the 1960s.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1960 - 1969?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Print after a scratchboard depicting a pair of loons, printed in dark green on light green background. This image belongs to a series of four screenprints, each printed in two colors, after scratchboards by Francis Lee Jaques. The Jaques Art Center owns the original artworks and produced the prints. Two of the prints are illustrations from "Cano...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1997?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Page Count:: 2
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Watercolor painting of a pair of mallards, male and female, swimming on water in a marshy landscape. Image mounted on dark brown paper. This is an early, possibly childhood work by Francis Lee Jaques and may be adapted or copied from other sources.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Small pencil drawing of a pine tree. Title indicates that tree is "partly dead," perhaps signaled by the many bare branches. Pine needles are indicated on only a few branches.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Patagonian Cavy

Description:: Scratchboard illustration of five cavies in the mountains of Patagonia. Used as the header illustration for chapter XXVIII of "South American Zoo" (Victor W. Von Hagen, 1946.)
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1946?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawing of rugged rocks along the coast of Peru. Rocky foreground opens onto a stretch of water and mountains viewed beyond. Part one of a five part panorama drawn for a taxidermy diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawing of rugged rocks along the coast of Peru. Part two of a five-part panorama drawn for a taxidermy diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22