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Description:: 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.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1900 - 1910?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Pencil drawing of a dwarf willow tree, created during the 1928 Stoll-McCracken expedition to the Arctic led by the American Museum of Natural History.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1928-06-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Easter Island

Description:: Oil painting of a hilly landscape on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), viewed from a high vantage point. Scattered boulders in foreground. In the center of the painting, the crest of a hill is hollowed out into a quarry pit, with trails or gorges leading to and from it. The Bell also owns a drawing that is a direct study for this painting, "Easter Islan...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1935
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Eiders Offshore

Description:: Painting in casein on masonite depicting several King and Common eiders on the water, with snowy mountains in the background. Records indicate that the painting is set off the Aleutian islands and was created, or at least planned, during the American Museum of Natural History's 1928 Stoll-McCracken Expedition.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1928
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Elderberry Bush

Description:: Pencil drawing of a segment of elderberry bush with no leaves or berries.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Description:: Clay sculpture of a male elk, on wood base. The clay has been varnished to a darker brown. This is the sculpted clay model for the only sculpture Jaques ever made. Bell Museum taxidermist John Jarosz made a plaster cast (no longer extant) of this clay model, and a bronze was made from the plaster cast.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1965
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Page Count:: 2
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Elk [sculpture]

Description:: Bronze sculpture or statuette of a male elk, standing, mounted on wood base. This sculpture is the only one that Jaques ever made. Jaques sculpted a clay version, of which Bell Museum taxidermist John Jarosz made a plaster cast (no longer extant); the final bronze was made from the plaster cast.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1965
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Page Count:: 7
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Elm

Description:: Envelope for a set of four prints after Francis Lee Jaques scratchboards for "Spring in Washington" by Louis J. Halle, Jr. (1947.) This set was published by the Audubon Naturalist Society of Washington, DC, an organization that owned the original scratchboards. The brown paper envelope features a clipped-out printed placard featuring a drawing o...
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1957?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22

Europe

Description:: Oil on masonite depicting animals from Europe. 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. Murray and Mrs. Jane Olyphant.
Creator:: Jaques, Francis Lee, 1887-1969
Created:: 1964
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Bell Museum.
Last Updated:: 2019-04-22