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Muskox

Description:: Pencil drawing of a muskox standing in snow, facing left. The muskox's fur is being blown to the left, indicating a strong wind. Two more muskox in background, with a snowy hillside or mountainside in far distance. Pencil lines indicate borders of scene. Preparatory drawing for a scratchboard illustration published in Victor H. Cahalane's "Mamma...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1947?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Creator:: Batavia Nurseries (Nelson Bogue)
Created:: 1899
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Andersen Horticultural Library.
Page Count:: 64
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Nene

Description:: Print featuring both etching and lithography, depicting two nene (Hawaiian geese.) This print, by wildlife artist Stanley Stearns, is the second edition of a design that was used as the 1964 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, colloquially known as a duck stamp. (Francis Lee Jaques had designed the 1940 duck stamp.) It is sign...
Creator:: Stearns, Stanley, 1926-2013
Created:: 1964
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Three-page poem "Night on the Roseau" by Ephraim Jaques with pen and ink illustration by Francis Lee Jaques, Ephraim's son. Undated. 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 - 1920?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Page Count:: 3
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Oil on masonite depicting animals from North America. This is one of two panels depicting North America; it is the left-hand panel. 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 spo...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1964
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Oil on masonite depicting animals from North America. This is one of two panels depicting North America; it is the right-hand panel. 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 sp...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1964
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawing of the banks of a river. The left side of the page depicts water, with sandy banks on the right and brush in the distance.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1945-03-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Two pages of hand-written notes on fragile, yellowed paper, describing colors to accompany with pencil sketches of bird islands of Peru, specifically Santa Rosa island. These islands, populated by birds, were a major source of guano, used in fertilizer. Jaques traveled to these islands to study the landscape in preparation for painting the backg...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1926
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Page Count:: 2
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawing of a guava tree from Nuku Hiva island from the Marquesas (French Polynesia.) Drawn during Jaques's travels with the 1934-1935 Templeton Crocker expedition to the South Pacific, undertaken in preparation for taxidermy dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. Many small hash marks divide tree into pieces, each numbered, f...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1934 - 1935?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawings of a hibiscus tree and a branch of the tree from Nuku Hiva island from the Marquesas (French Polynesia.) Drawn during Jaques's travels with the 1934-1935 Templeton Crocker expedition to the South Pacific, undertaken in preparation for taxidermy dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. Many small hash marks divide each ...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1934 - 1935?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22