TRIP TO DEGRAZIA GALLERY

Yesterday, Bob and I went to Tucson with the Camera Club to visit the DeGrazia Gallery. Ted DeGrazia was a beloved Tucson artist famous for his paintings of native American children. Mr. DeGrazia designed and supervised the construction of his gallery in the 1960's. Part of his legend, before his death in 1982, was his protest against inheritance tax on works of art. He rode on horseback to the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix and set 100 of his paintings on fire. One room in the gallery portrays his life. The entrance to the gallery.

A room in the gallery is set up as if he were there still painting.

His paintings are on everything, even on the walls of some of the adobe outbuildings.

The floor leading to this bench is made of dead saguaro pieces. They are cut and polished and laid in the floor.

Bob enjoying the scenery.

What would a gallery in Tucson be with out the cactus garden.

This path was behind the gallery and had benches and fountains.

This was a stone tree that DeGrazia built. Coins are placed on the rocks, much like throwing coins in a fountain.

A close up!

Bob and I in front of one of DeGrazia's bigger paintings.

It was a fun day.