Felix Pinto Gonzales (b. 1902, Navotas), worked in the realist tradition and whose works had appeared in Graphic Magazine before the War. At one point in the 1950s, he served as President of the Academy of Filipino Artists. He set up a gallery at the Manila Hotel and also forayed in nearby Angeles City where his Pacific landscapes, ethnic types, portraits and velvet paintings found a willing American market. Felix Gonzales is largely unknown till now, thanks in part to renewed and growing interest in the so-called "Mabini Art". The artist died with a smile on his lips, on 11 Dec. 1976--after completing his last painting of a blooming flower.
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