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Ricarte Madamba Puruganan (November 20, 1912 – January 15, 1998) was a Filipino painter.
He was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte. He is the first of six children of Honorio S. Puruganan, a musician, composer, poet and painter, and Victoria M. Puruganan, a school teacher and housewife.
Puruganan is regarded as "One of the Thirteen Moderns", a group of artists that broke away from the Conservatives, led by Fernando Amorsolo. His paintings were exhibited side by side with those of the other masters: Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabian de la Rosa, Amorsolo, Victorio C. Edades, Vicente Manansala, Hernando R. Ocampo & Cesar Legaspi. The other side of Ricarte Puruganan's artistry is manifested by the 60 existing government and private edifices, sculptures and landscapes which he undertook during his 25 years of self-imposed exile from the art scene of Manila starting 1950. During those years, he spent communing with his ancestral town of Dingras, Ilocos Norte. Which is why we see in many of his paintings those scenes closest to his heart – the rustic, the indigenous; quaint seascapes and evocative agricultural.(*)