![Anita Magsaysay-Ho - Paghuhuli Ng Mga Manok (Catching Chickens) [1962]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5575/15142288769_0cbdfa7914_o.jpg)
The present work entitled Paghuhuli Ng Mga Manok (Catching Chickens) is a classic piece from the artist’s oeuvre. Her portrayals of rural women provided a platform for the audience to empathise with those individuals, whose lives were for a moment part of the public domain. It was this reciprocal relationship that has garnered her oeuvre much acclaim and the artist recognised as one of the Thirteen Moderns who had a transformative impact on Filipino modern art. Within this grouping of artists, Magsaysay-Ho (1914 - 2012) was the only female.
She began her art education at nine years old under the tutorage of Ireneo Miranda who was a respected cartoonist. Magsaysay-Ho did her formal training at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts, and later at the School of Design in Manila where her professors included fellow artists Fernando Amorsolo and Victorio Edades. In the thirties the artist had the opportunity to study in America, specifically at the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and then at the Art Students' League in New York City.
[Sotheby’s, Hong Kong - Oil on canvas, 102 x 132 cm]