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Taking a very early interest in art, he was not yet eight years old when he was already getting in trouble for cutting images out of his parents’ magazines for his personal scrapbook. ​ ​ Born the fourth of six boys to his parents Maria Paz Yangco and Miguel Jose Ossorio in 1916, on the island of Luzon in Manilla, Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio was of Hispanic, Filipino and Chinese heritage. His contributions included not only the body of work he produced, and culturally significant communications and documents, but also the resulting art that came from the support and encouragement he provided to fellow artists, and an attitude of acceptance rather than exclusion in the art community. In pursuit of this passion, Ossorio became connected to a web of important players in art history, which he in turn influenced with his own enthusiasm and curiosity for new ways to express creativity.

​ ​ Alfonso Ossorio committed his life to the appreciation and creation of art in its limitless forms.