Wheaton College Permanent Collection

Madeline Farnsworth donated the painting to Wheaton College's Permanent Collection in 2002. It was inventoried in March of 2011.

Madeline amassed a great number of art pieces throughout her collecting career, eventually donating 251 separate items to Wheaton College's Permanent Collection. She held a close relationship to the college while she attended and afterwards while working in Park Hall. While in writing she appeared to step away from Wheaton while living in New York, she maintained a close relationship with the college through over 250 donations of to Wheaton College's Permanent Collection. 

Because Wheaton did not know where the object came from, reached out to Robin Farwell Gavin, Curator of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She suggested that "...the painting appears to be a 19th century provincial style painting." She also mentions that it would be "difficult to determine its exact place of origin, northern Mexico in the areas of Queretaro or Durango would be a good possibility." As for the subject matter, Wheaton College's painting is a "very common rendering of St. James in the colonial period."

The painting can currently be seen on display on the first floor in the corridor between the Museum Studies classroom and the Permanent Collection room. 

Text Source: Robin Farwell Gavin, Curator of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art