Women with Jars
signed and dated 1949 (upper right and verso)
acrylic on wood
12 1/4” x 10” (31 cm x 25 cm)

Further studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art helped ferment and foster the modernist leanings in Anita Magsaysay Ho. Whereas her works in the early forties still hovered around the Amorsolo school of genre, academic painting, Anita, the artist, found greater stimulus in modernist precepts. This can be gleaned from the faces that appear in this work from 1949 -- ever so slightly distorted and disproportioned. Still, women at work -- her trademark -- is the central image.
Leon Gallery wishes to thank Ms. Doris Magsaysay-Ho, daughter of the artist, for confirming that the work is by her mother.