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He painted the "Moro Dancer" and "Igorot Dance". His "Brown Madonna" garnered attention in 1938 because of its depiction of Jesus and Mary as non-Caucasian, brown Filipinos.  
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Ocampo, together with <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/841/today-in-philippine-history-december-23-1895-victorio-edades-was-born-in-dagupan-pangasinan" class="news_link">Victorio Edades</a> and <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/2820/12-of-botong-franciscos-best-and-most-recognizable-paintings" class="news_link">Carlos "Botong" Francisco</a>, formed the so-called "triumvirate" that initiated Philippine modern art. The triumvirate painted the mural "Rising Philippines" in the lobby of the Capitol Theater in Manila.
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(Brown Madonna by Galo B. Ocampo)
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During the World War II, he did intelligence work for the guerrilla movement and became a captain in the USAFFE.
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After the war, Ocampo lived in New York. He worked for General <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/877/today-in-philippine-history-january-14-1899-general-carlos-p-romulo-was-born-in-camiling-tarlac" class="news_link">Carlos P. Romulo</a> who was then the Philippine representative to the United Nations.  Ocampo also stayed briefly in Washington, D.C. to study heraldry (the system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are devised, described, and regulated) at the U.S. War Department and numismatics (the study of coins and paper currency) at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving.
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In the 1960s, during the administration of President <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/645/today-in-philippine-history-september-28-1910-diosdado-p-macapagal-was-born-in-lubao-pampanga" class="news_link">Diosdado Macapagal</a>, Ocampo served as curator of the Presidential Museum of Malacanang and, subsequently, as director of the National Museum and technical adviser on heraldry in the president's office. During this time he also taught art at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and at the Far Eastern University (FEU), where he became head of the Department of Fine Arts in 1971.
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He also served as a Secretary of the now-defunct Philippine Heraldry Committee which helped to design various seals of the different cities, municipalities, and provinces of the Philippines. After the Reorganization Act of 1972, the committee was abolished (its responsibilities were to be later handled by the National Historical Institute) and Ocampo became the Technical Adviser on Heraldry of the Office of the President.
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Among his many works are the stained glass windows in the reconstructed Manila Cathedral and those in the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City. 
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His most prominent work in heraldry include the coat of arms of the Philippines, the seal of the president, the different coat of arms of the different Archbishops of Manila and the various symbols of state of the Philippines. He designed the insignia of the Order of the Golden Heart among others.
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Ocampo took a degree in fine arts from the University of the Philippines.  He was also the first Filipino to study heraldry and was a member of the International Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry in Madrid.
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October 16, 1913: Galo B. Ocampo, a modernist painter, was born in Santa Rita, Pampanga