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Pine Forest

Francis Lee Jaques, Pine Forest. Oil on canvas, 1945. Gift of the Minneapolis Aid Society in memory of George Christian. Photography by Tom Nelson. Used with the permission of the Bell Museum and the University of Minnesota.

Muskox

Francis Lee Jaques, Muskox. Pencil drawing, ca. 1947. Preparatory drawing for scratchboard illustration in Victor H. Cahalane’s Mammals of North America (1947, page 83). Gift of Charlotte Johnson. Used with the permission of the Bell Museum and the University of Minnesota.

"The Old West Passes"

Francis Lee Jaques, The Old West Passes. Oil on canvas, 1968. Gift of Florence Page Jaques; photography by Tom Nelson. Used with the permission of the Bell Museum and the University of Minnesota.

Passenger Pigeons and Mourning Doves

Francis Lee Jaques, Passenger Pigeons and Mourning Doves. Watercolor on paper, ca. 1932. Illustration published in Thomas Sadler Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota, 1932, vol. I as plate 41.

Federal Duck Stamp Design

Francis Lee Jaques, Federal Duck Stamp Design. Print (lithograph), ca. 1940. Gift of William Webster. Used with the permission of the Bell Museum and the University of Minnesota.
Holding location: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

Jaques, Francis Lee (1887‒1969)

Francis Lee Jaques emerged from rural Minnesota in the 1930s and 40s to become a nationally known wildlife artist. After two decades at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he returned to his home state to paint a much-loved series of habitat dioramas at the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum. His images of Minnesota are a valuable record of the state’s natural history.