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They married and moved to China, where Ho's shipping industry company, Magsaysay Inc., began. Wherever she lived, Anita had access to a studio, where she spent a lot of time to paint.
In the early 1940s, the influence of her teacher Fenando Amorsolo was clearly visible, both in terms of subject and brightness of the paintings.
Despite constant relocation, she sustained a rigorous artistic practice, drawing from both her diasporic experiences and enduring ties to Filipino culture. She died three years later, just three weeks before her 98th birthday.
Her synthesis of modernist structure and本土 (local) subject matter influenced artists seeking to reconcile international styles with Filipino identity. As a rare female voice in the male-dominated modernist movement of her time, she expanded the scope of who could be represented—and who could be a creator—within the canon. In 1999, her painting *In the Marketplace* achieved a landmark sale at Christie’s Singapore, realizing $405,360—the highest price at the time for a work by a Filipino artist at international auction—cementing her prominence in both artistic and market spheres.
Artistic Style & Themes
Her oeuvre centers on Filipino women as pillars of labor and community, depicted in scenes of harvesting, fishing, and market trade.
In New York, Kenneth Hayes Miller offered a counterpoint—his focus on geometric composition, urban subject matter, and Cubist-informed spatial organization profoundly redirected her approach. She was the only woman in the pioneering group “13 Moderns” founded by Victorio Edades. Her parents were Armilla Corpus and Ambrosio Magsaysay, an engineer.
A senate resolution was filed by Senator Franklin Drilon recommending Magsaysay-Ho to be conferred the National Artist Award for her contributions to Filipino modern art.
2nd prize at the Manila Grand Opera House Exhibition (1950) for "Five Senses" 1st prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1952) for "The Cooks" 2nd prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1953) for "Fruit Vendors" 1st prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1959) for "Mending the Nets" 1st prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1960) for "Two Women" 2nd prize of The Philippine Art Association (PAG) (1962) for "Trio"
There are collections of Anita Magsaysay-Ho in:
the Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines The Lopez Memorial Museum and Library, Pasig, Philippines the Metropolitan Museum of.
JiManila, Manila Philippines the Yuchengco Museum, Makati City, Philippines
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Anita Magsaysay-Ho was a pioneering artist and one of the first modernists in the Philippines. Her canvases remained steadfastly rooted in Philippine life, composed from memory, sketches, and photographs—a quiet act of cultural fidelity amidst global displacement.
Legacy
Magsaysay-Ho paved the way for generations of Filipino women artists, demonstrating how personal vision could intersect with national narrative without sacrificing formal rigor.
The Anita Magsaysay-Ho Art Gallery continues to steward her legacy, ensuring sustained visibility and scholarly engagement.
Awards & Accolades
She received multiple first-place awards from the Art Association of the Philippines, a testament to her consistent excellence in national competitions.
She garnered multiple top honors from the Art Association of the Philippines, establishing her reputation with works that combined social observation with formal innovation. They lived in Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. A first cousin of Ramon Magsaysay, the seventh President of the Philippines, she entered the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts at the age of 13.
In 2005, Alfredo Roces wrote a biography of her, called "In Praise of Women". Her style matured during this period, moving beyond the luminous pastoralism of her early training toward a more structured, modernist idiom shaped by mid-century global currents.