Francis Lee Jaques (1887-1969) Birds of the Pine Woods

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  Francis Lee Jaques (1887-1969)
  Birds of the Pine Woods
  signed "F.L. Jaques" lower right
  oil on canvas, 28 by 24 in.
  
  Also titled Birds of the Pinelands, Alexander Sprunt, Jr. describes this painting in his 1954 update of Florida Bird Life: “Some birds are so completely characteristic of pinelands that they are found nowhere else. Of these are the Pinewoods Sparrow, upper right; two Nuthatches, Florida White-breasted (left) and Brown-headed (right), right center. Beneath them is a Red-cockaded Woodpecker. At the upper left center is a pair of Pine Warblers, male at left; at lower left is a Yellow-throated Warbler.”
  
  Lot 7 and 8 are two paintings “Jaques painted for various bird identification books … [that] skillfully marr[y] scientific accuracy with artistry.” Jaques provided paintings for Florida Bird Life by Arthur H. Howell in 1932, which was updated and republished in 1954 by Alexander Sprunt, Jr. of the National Audubon Society. The artist also painted for South Carolina Bird Life, published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1949, along with John Henry Dick (1919-1995) and Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996).
  
  Patricia Johnston writes, “Lee and Florence were avid birders and often invited friends along on their bird-watching trips. ‘We would go on the annual Christmas bird count in Washington County,’ one former North Oaks neighbor remembers…’You could learn an awful lot just standing close to Lee. One time ... we went up to Duluth ... to watch the hawks coming by Hawk Ridge. We spent an entire day there. Lee could identify and describe every hawk in the sky plus turkey vultures, eagles, osprey, everything.” Jaques’ dedication to close observation in the field confers authority and authenticity to his ornithological paintings.
  
  Provenance: Private Collection, New York
  
  Literature: Patricia Condon Johnston, The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques, Camden, SC, 1994, p. 143. Arthur H. Howell, Florida Bird Life, Tallahassee, FL, 1932, pl. 49, illustrated.
  Alexander Sprunt, Jr., Florida Bird Life: Based on and Supplementary to Florida Bird Life by Arthur H. Howell, published in 1932, New York, NY, 1954, pl. 49, p. 325, illustrated.

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