Tucson Art: The Gallery in the Sun
posted on 12 February 2011 | posted in
Arts and Entertainment
I am an art devotee. I have purchased many canvas art prints over the years and you could say my own home is a bit of an art gallery. However, I want to talk here about another art gallery - my favourite haunt in fact.
The Gallery in the Sun is located in Tucson, Arizona and holds many of the finest works of Southwestern artist Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia. DeGrazia was the son of Italian immigrants born in a Morenci mining camp in Territorial Arizona in 1909. When he was 23, he hitchhiked to Tucson with nothing more than his trumpet and $15 in his pocket. After enrolling at the University of Arizona, DeGrazia took classes, worked as a tree planter and part-time musician. Somewhere in his "spare" time he managed to paint a picture here and there. After a chance meeting with muralist Diego Rivera in Mexico City, DeGrazia's passion for art would explode. His first gallery was built by him out of adobe, on a plot in Central Tucson that he paid $25 for in 1944. His work would be featured countless times in the pages of Arizona Highways as well as international publications, including materials published for UNICEF during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ted DeGrazia died in 1982, but his legend lives on at The Gallery in the Sun.
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