Marion Koogler McNay was a wealthy patroness of the arts who resided in San Antonio, Texas. She generoulsly willed her Spanish Colonial style house and the adjoining twenty-three acres to the advancement of art in the modern age. In fact, her bequest became the first museum of modern art in Texas, exhibiting works by Rodin, Cézanne, Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, O'Keeffe, Hopper and others. For more information on the McNay Art Museum, see The McNay.   Pictured above is a tiled alcove featuring Don Quixote on Rocinante, with Sancho Panza seated behind him on Dapple and a windmill in the background (Photo by Agar Zepeda).

In the courtyard area of this hacienda style structure, a local artist named Pedro Sanchez designed a series of tiles based on the Don Quixote theme. The three images below feature two large panels of individual tiles depicting specific characters or scenes from the novel, with the middle tile featuring Cervantes himself.

The pair of panels reproduced below depict important characters in the novel, such as Tereza Panza in the center of the left-hand grouping, with the fair Dorotea in disguise to the upper-left of her. The right-hand group depicts, among other episodes, the ubiquitous affair of Don Quixote with the windmill-giant.

In this pair, the two familiar companions are depicted once again on the left, this time with Sancho leading the way, perhaps away from the windmills, while the tiles on the right portray one of Don Quixote's greatest victories, his defeat of the "ferocious" circus lions in Part Two, Chapter XVII, which earned him the title, The Knight of the Lions (Photos by Dana Vallejo).