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- She is a Philippine painter, considered by many to be one of the most important and gifted Philippine modernists.
- She was often hailed as the greatest woman Filipino painter.In 1958, a panel of experts assembled by the Manila Chronicle named her one of the 6 most outstanding painters in Philippine history.
- She was regarded as a pioneering woman painter and a first generation modernist, Anita Magsaysay-Ho has a special place in the history of Philippines art.

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Magsaysay-Ho was born in Manila in May, 1914, the daughter of Ambrosio Magsaysay, an engineer, and Armilla Corpus. Anita’s first cousin, Ramon Magsaysay, served as President of the Philippines from December of 1953 until his death in a 1957 plane crash. Beginning her studies at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts at the age of 13 — accompanied by a nanny — she studied with Fabian de la Rosa, Vicente Rivera y Mir and also Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo. Fernando Amorsolo was her landscape teacher, while Pablo Amorsolo taught her drawing.

She also received private tutoring from the noted cartoonist Ireneo Miranda. She recieved additional instruction at the UP’s School of Design where her instructors included Victorio Edades and Enrique Ruiz, and at the “Atelier of Modern Art” founded by Edades.

She later developed a style more closely related to modernist ideas, which she achieved by accentuating stylisation, design, and rhythm, rather than a realistic depiction of the visible world. She is known for her genre scenes featuring angular figures, predominantly of women painted in tempera or oils.

She developed a taste for modernism during her studies at the Cranbrook Art Academy of the University of Michigan. With the support of Lyd Arguilla’s Philippine Art Gallery in the 1950s, she greatly contributed to the acknowledgement of modern art, which was initially met with a great deal resistance. She was the only woman in the pioneering group “13 Moderns” founded by Victorio Edades. She was awarded many prizes at art contests, especially those organised by the Art Association of the Philippines, the oldest artist’s organisation founded by Purita Kalaw-Ledesma, herself a pioneer of Philippine modernism.

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ANITA CORPUS MAGSAYSAY-HO (Philippine, b. May 25, 1914, d. May 5, 2012)

aka Anita Magsaysay, Anita Magsaysay Ho

Styles: Philippine Modern, Neo-Realism

Subjects: Philippine genre scenes, landscapes, harvest and market scenes, female nudes

Anita Magsaysay-Ho is a Philippine painter, considered by many to be one of the most important and gifted Philippine modernists. In 1958, a panel of experts assembled by the Manila Chronicle named her one of the 6 most outstanding painters in Philippine history. Magsaysay-Ho's best known canvases, which often have both realist and stylized aspects, celebrate the beauty of Philippine women engaged in everyday tasks.

Magsaysay-Ho was born in Manila in May, 1914, the daughter of Ambrosio Magsaysay, an engineer, and Armilla Corpus. Anita's first cousin, Ramon Magsaysay, served as President of the Philippines from December of 1953 until his death in a 1957 plane crash. Beginning her studies at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts at the age of 13 - accompanied by a nanny - she studied with Fabian de la Rosa, Vicente Rivera y Mir and also Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo. Fernando Amorsolo was her landscape teacher, while Pablo Amorsolo taught her drawing.

She also received private tutoring from the noted cartoonist Ireneo Miranda. She recieved additional instruction at the UP's School of Design where her instructors included Victorio Edades and Enrique Ruiz, and at the "Atelier of Modern Art" founded by Edades.

In the 1930s Anita Magsaysay travelled to the United States where she continued her studies at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. Anita also took courses in oil painting, and drawing at the Art Student's League in New York City. While in New York, Anita met her future husband, Robert Ho, who was also a student. After their marriage, he bought postwar ships in the United States and brought them to China where he established a shipping business: Magsaysay Inc. Because of her husband's work, the Hos and moved frequently, living in Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. Anita, who has moved over 40 times in her lifetime, was soon raising 5 children. Anita was painting whenever possible, and always had a home studio where her children would sketch, play the piano and listen to music while she painted.

During the early 1940s Magsaysay - Ho's works showed the influence of Fernando Amorsolo both in their subject matter and their luminosity. Gradually, her paintings evolved towards modernism as they moved towards cubist distortion and evolved stylized visual rhythms. She was included on a list of "Thirteen Moderns" compiled by artist Victor Edades, and was at one point known as the "female Amorsolo."

In the 1950s Magsaysay-Ho exhibited at the important Philippine Art Gallery (PAG) which brought her public attention and acclaim. Her work was grouped with that of other Neo-Realists including Lydia Arguilla and Nena Saguil. Anita's paintings of this period featured women at work: harvesting fruit, gathering and sheaving grain, or selling fish in the marketplace. Her works were formally activated by bold brushwork and strong contrasts of dark and light tones.

In the 1960s the space of Magsaysay-Ho's paintings opened up and the resulting images were more relaxed, with clearly articulated and separated figures. The lines in her work softened, and her modeling became more consistent. These paintings have the feeling of being choreographed, and are very graceful in their effect.

In the 1970s Magsaysay-Ho explored a new style influenced by Chinese calligraphy. Her paintings were often decorated with delicately controlled ink blots that suggested rock formations, vegetation or waves. At their best, they balanced human gestures with the calligraphic interest provided by the ink blots.

In the late 1980's the artist had a "Green Period." Green-hued fruit and vegetables mingle with female figures that seem to resemble plants or fruits themselves. The women in these paintings feature oval faces with high cheekbones and narrow eyes. Another series that followed the green paintings featured half figures surrounded by baskets, fruit and birds. These figures are solid and highly refined, rendered in an Asian palette that counter-balanced stark contrasts between colors such as burnt sienna and yellow-green.

In her nineties Magsaysay-Ho became the subject of a biography by Alfredo Roces, "In Praise of Women," published in 2005. She states, in the text; "In my works I always celebrate the women of the Philippines. I regard them with deep admiration and they continue to inspire me-their movements and gestures, their expressions of happiness and frustration; their diligence and shortcomings; their joy of living. I know very well the strength, hard work and quiet dignity of Philippine women, for I am one of them."

After suffering a stroke in 2009 Magsaysay-Ho stopped talking. One day, regaining her speech, she called her husband and told him "Robert, you are the only man I ever loved in my life."

2nd Prize: The Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition, 1950, for "Five Senses"1st Prize: The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1952, for "The Cooks"2nd Prize: The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1953, for "Fruit Vendors"1st Prize: The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1959, for "Mending the Nets"1st Prize: The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1960, for "Two Women" Awards:

2nd Prize: The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1962, for "Trio"

Collections:

The Ateneo Art Museum, Ateneo de Manila University, The PhilippinesThe Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, Pasig City, The PhilippinesThe Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines

The Yuchengo Museum, Makati City, The Philippines
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Buying Anita Magsaysay-Ho paintings - Highest Prices Paid: Artist Bio & images follow: ANITA CORPUS MAGSAYSAY-HO (Philippine, b. May 25, 1914, d. May 5, 2012) aka Anita Magsaysay, Anita Magsaysay Ho Styles: Philippine Modern, Neo-Realism Subjects: Philippine genre scenes, landscapes, harvest and market scenes, female nudes Anita Magsaysay-Ho is a Philippine painter, considered by many to be one of the most important and gifted Philippine modernists.

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best known for her Social Realist and post-Cubist portrayals of Filipino life and culture, notably and frequently portraying groups of women engaged in labor.

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From the Archives: Anita Magsaysay Ho: Her Life, Art, And Philosophies

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This feature story was originally titled as In Praise of Anita, and was published in the May 2011 issue of Tatler Philippines

Mention Anita Magsaysay Ho and the name automatically brings to mind images of women with small triangular handkerchiefs, elongated necks and slits for eyes. The women who inhabit Anita's canvases are busy at work: feeding the chickens, harvesting fruits, threshing or pounding rice in the farm, gathering shells by the seashore, cooking, sweeping, sewing in their own homes, or vending in the marketplace. These hardy peasant women surrounded Anita as a child spending summers in her native Zambales province.

"My life and, therefore, my paintings are so enriched by these vacations," Anita said of those summers. She not only observed rural life, she took delight in actively participating in it. She went fishing with her mother along the mangroves, joined her brother, Mike, in pulling the nets of the fishermen, picked native fruits like mangoes and sineguelas, planted flowering shrubs, tried her hand in mending fishing nets, gathered chicken eggs and played with the children of the farm. She offered flowers in the Flores de Mayo festivals, joined Holy Week activities like the pabasa (continuous singing of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that takes about 24 hours) and processions and delighted in going to the fiestas of neighbouring towns. A highly visual person even as a child, Anita observed such details as the gestures of women while they gossiped or the rise and fall of their hips and shoulders just as pestle rose and fell into the mortar. Not content with merely watching them, she tried her hand in pounding rice herself.

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From the Archives: Anita Magsaysay Ho: Her Life, Art, And Philosophies

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This feature story was originally titled as In Praise of Anita, and was published in the May 2011 issue of Tatler Philippines Mention Anita Magsaysay Ho and the name automatically brings to mind images of women with small triangular handkerchiefs, elongated necks and slits for eyes.

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Her most famous work includes "Two Women," a painting portraying two Filipina women with white head-wraps shucking corn together while smiling,
"Cooks," featuring three Filipina women with pots full of food in front of them,
and "Mending the Nets" that shows two Filipina women conversing while stitching a net.

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​Some Affiliated Schools, Galleries and Museums:
University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts
​Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
The Ateneo Art Museum, Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines
The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, Pasig City, The Philippines
The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines
The Yuchengo Museum, Makati City, The Philippines

Awards:
2nd prize at The Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition, 1950, for “Five Senses”
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1952, for “The Cooks”
2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1953, for “Fruit Vendors”
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1959, for “Mending the Nets”
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1960, for “Two Women”
2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1962, for “Trio”

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Neo-Realist painting in her country, and is considered one of the Thirteen Moderns of Philippine Art, which included Victorio Edades, Carlos Francisco, Galo Ocampo and Vicente Manansala. Collectively, these artists challenged the conservative status-quo of art in the Philippines during the 1950s.

​ A student at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts and the Atelier of Modern Art , she was taught by artists such as Fernando Amorsolo and Victorio Edades. After World War II she went to the United States to study at the Art Students League of New York, and later, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. In her studies she learned techniques, such as egg tempera, photograms, and woodcuts, which she brought back to the Philippines and incorporated into the modern art movement. While in New York she also met Robert Ho, whom she married in 1947. Together, the couple lived all over the world, including New York, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, Vancouver, Montreal, and Manila.

​ ​​ Magsaysay-Ho earned numerous accolades over her long career as an artist. In the 1950 Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition she won first prize for Five Senses, and in 1952 she was second prize for Fish Vendors. At the Art Association of the Philippines annual exhibition she won prizes for The Cooks in 1952, the Fruit Vendors in 1953, Mending the Nets in 1959, Two Women in 1960, and Trio in 1962. In 1999, her painting In the Marketplace sold at a record high price for a living Filipino artist. She also became well-known for her nude drawings in charcoal, and her poetry as well. At the age of 97, Anita Magsaysay-Ho died in Manila i n May of 2012.

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University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts
​Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
The Ateneo Art Museum, Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines
The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, Pasig City, The Philippines
The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines
The Yuchengo Museum, Makati City, The Philippines

Awards:
2nd prize at The Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition, 1950, for "Five Senses"
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1952, for "The Cooks"
2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1953, for "Fruit Vendors"
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1959, for "Mending the Nets"
1st prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1960, for "Two Women"
2nd prize at The Philippine Art Association (PAG), 1962, for "Trio" Some Affiliated Schools, Galleries and Museums

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Neo-Realist painting in her country, and is considered one of the Thirteen Moderns of Philippine Art, which included Victorio Edades, Carlos Francisco, Galo Ocampo and Vicente Manansala. Collectively, these artists challenged the conservative status-quo of art in the Philippines during the 1950s.

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https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-a-Girl/33E8AF0847EA5B30

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Women-with-Baskets--Fish--and-Crab/EF40CCFE149B3EAF

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Anita Magsaysay-Ho was a Filipino painter best known for her Social Realist and post-Cubist portrayals of Filipino life and culture, notably and frequently portraying groups of women engaged in labor. Born on May 25, 1914 in Manila, the Philippines, Magsaysay-Ho studied under Fernando Amorsolo at the University of the Philippines' School of Fine Arts before moving to the United States to study at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. Her work centered around the central tenets of Modernism, garnering her inclusion in the Filipino artist group the Thirteen Moderns-the only woman to do so. Magsaysay-Ho received significant critical acclaim and recognition for her work before her death on May 5, 2012, including first prize at the Philippine Art Association in 1952. Her work can be found among the collections of institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and the Ateneo Art Gallery in Manila, Philippines.

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Anita Magsaysay-Ho was a Filipino painter best known for her Social Realist and post-Cubist portrayals of Filipino life and culture, notably and frequently portraying groups of women engaged in labor. View Anita Magsaysay-Ho's artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.