PROPERTY FROM THE ERLINDA ENRIQUEZ-PANLILIO COLLECTION

Untitled
signed and dated 1949 (lower right)
oil on masonite board
12” x 15” (30 cm x 38 cm)

Artist Juan M. Arellano, who had trained under masters Lorenzo Guerrero, Toribio Antillon, and Fabian de la Rosa, showed a true passion for the arts. Despite this, he pursued architecture andtravelled to the United States as one of the first pensionados in architecture. After much contribution to the pre-war Philippine skyline, Arellano retired in 1956 — it was right after this retirement that he ventured back into painting. Juan M. Arellano’s oeuvre has featured the idyllic and the serene, capturing very Filipino scenery and immortalizing such on his canvas.

In 1960, he exhibited his works at the Manila YMCA; he passed away on December 5th of the same year