In the late 1800s Portuguese immigrant Constantino Bello, (likely the brother of Antonio Nunes Bello, one of the
early Presidents of the IDESST — the Portuguese Social Hall established in Sausalito in 1888), purchased the «Ranch M» property from the Tamalpais Land and Water Company, and soon thereafter built several wooden structures for a dairy operation, including a farm house, a creamery, a milking
barn and a
small shed.
New Midwestern locations brought back his
earlier saturated color sense and the motif of farms appeared with the
small barn - reliefed surface of «Farm» (1983) and the mural - size «Farm» (1966) with its painting - within - paintings and farms and silos, from the museum's collection.