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Fernando Amorsolo was a National Artist Awardee.
In his golden years (1920-
1945), he reaped various honors. He went to Madrid in 1917 to study musuem classics after receving a scholarship grant from a rich businessman named Enrique Zobel. His first portrait upon return to Manila was that of his wife Salud. He exhibited 40 of his genres and landscape at the Art Center of New York in 1925. In 1939, he submitted his entry Afternoon Meal of the Rice Workers at the New York World's Fair where he was acclaimed the best by popular vote. Amorsolo was also appointed Director of the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines. He also did splendid illustration work in Graphics, Liwayway, Sunday Tribune, Tagalog novels such as Madaling Araw and Parusa ng Bayan, and posters and brochures. He painted acclaimed masterpieces like The Blind Man, The Burning of Manila, Antipolo, and Dalagang Bukid, among others.
