Francis Lee Jaques: Artist Of The Wilderness World


 

$75.00

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Description

"A richly illustrated biography of one of America's greatest nature artists, written by his wife Florence."
"With 64 paintings and dioramas in full color. 100 drawings in scratchboard, pen and ink, and pencil. A treasury of prose writings from the six Jacques books. Three new appraisals of the artist's work. Memorials to Francis Lee Jaques by Sigurd F. Olson and to Florence Page Jaques by Harriet Buchheister."
Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. This is the primary reference on Jaques who was a painter and illustrator of animals and wilderness whose drawings appeared in over 30 books and who painted dioramas for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Features

Francis Lee Jaques

Condition & Attributes

NF in a VG+ slipcase

Creators

Francis Lee
Jaques
Florence Page
Jaques

Publishing Information

Doubleday
1973
1st

Physical Description

cloth