Virginia Ty-Navarro
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Virginia Ty-Navarro (5 July 1922 – 28 January 1996) was a Filipina sculptor and painter, best known nationwide for her 1989 sculpture "Statue of Our Lady Queen of Peace", which she completed in sixteen months on a ₱12 million budget.[1] The sculpture is alternatively called "Our Lady of EDSA Shrine" and is located atop the church of the same name in Ortigas.
Ty-Navarro was born on 5 July 1922.[2] In her youth, she began with tutoring from a Chinese artist and later a German nun as she was at St. Scholastica’s College. She then took a course in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas where she studied under National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco[3] and National Artist Victorio C. Edades, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.[4]
She later taught at her alma mater of the University of Santo Tomas and the former College of the Holy Spirit. She worked primarily with metals,[5] such as bronze.[6] and followed a modernist style in her art,[7] particularly the technique of "incision painting".[2] Some of her works are currently displayed in Manila at the National Museum of Fine Arts.[8]
Ty-Navarro was married to National Artist Jerry Navarro Elizalde.[4] She died from Alzheimer's disease in Manila on 28 January 1996, at the age of 71.[9][10][2]
Exhibits and works
- Women in Art 2008: Oil Painting and Metal Sculpture
