Venancio Igarta

Biography

Born:
Sinait, Philippines 1912

Died:
New York, New York 2000

(source: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2380)

"is a native of Luzon. His work is exhibited in a number of galleries in America. His painting for Container Corporation of America is composed largely around the native Filipino home built on stilts, made of native materials such as bamboo, woods, shells, nipa, or cagon grass roofs" (Modern Art in Advertising).