DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun
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The DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun was only a few miles from the motel we were
staying in while visiting Tucson so one afternoon we went over to see it.
The Gallery in the Sun consists of a few adobe buildings built by artist
Ettore (Ted) DeGrazia. The building to the left is an open air chapel. Ted was
born in the mining camp of Morenci in Arizona in 1909. His early life taught
him to appreciate the people of the Sonoran Desert and his later artwork would
come to reflect the desert and it's people. |
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On the grounds are the open air chapel, the adobe house he lived in and a
gallery of his artwork. In 1976, in order to protest an inheritance
tax based on assessed market values of his work he claimed the IRS rulings
made him "a millionaire on paper and my heirs will have to pay taxes for
which there is no money." In a well-publicized protest, he rode on
horseback into the Superstition Mountains and burned approximately 100 of
his paintings |
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The photo to the left was his house. The photos of the saguaro cacti were
taken nearby at the Tohono Chul park and botanical gardens. |
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