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Last Name Jaques

Given Name Francis Lee

alt. Names F. L. J. ; Francis L. Jaques ;

Marriage naturalist author Florence Page (1890-1972) in 1927 ;

Children

Year born 1887 Genesco, Illinois

Year died 1969

Place of death North Oakes, Minnesota

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education electrical engineering, Army ; art from Clarence C. Rosenkrantz ;

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Edwin H Colbert (1905-2001): Dinosaur Book (1945/51) ; F. P. Jaques: Canoe Country (1938) ; Rob. Cushman Murphy: Oceanic Birds S Amer (1936) ; A. Howell: Florida Bird Life (1932) ;

Patronage Frank Chapman 1924 artist at American Museum of Natural History; American Ornithologists' Union

Collaborators draftsman C. R. Knight ; draftsman J. C. Germann ; draftsman E. S. Christman ;

Techniques fossil, paleontological, ornithological, and landscape drawing, painting, watercolour, oil, ink, and scraperboard ; taxidermy and diorama painting ;

Sample(s) www.wildlifeart.org/collection/artists/artist-francis-lee-jaques-335/ ;

Archival sources American Museum of Natural History, New York. James Ford Bell Museum of Nat.Hist. & St Louis County Hist.Soc. Duluth, Minnesota ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 786 ; Langer 1978: 376, # 6561 ; Jackson: Dict Bird Artists 1999: 71 &305 ; Mengel 1980: 59 & 62 ;

other active in New York. conservationist, also known for his landscape paintings & dioramas; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lee_Jaques

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