On 3/8/11, we drove to Tucson AZ for lunch. Phyllis and I visited the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun and Ted and Bob checked out the Tucson Airplane Graveyard. The DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun is a 10-acre historic district in the foothills of Tucson's Santa Catalina Mountains. It was designed and built by Arizona artist Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia known for his colorful paintings of native cultures of the Sonoran desert. The foundation was established to preserve his gallery and ensure permanent exhibitions of his artwork. In October 2006, the 10-acre foothills site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The exhibit is free to the public. It includes 15,000 DeGrazia originals, including oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics and sculptures. You can also walk through a home he built and lived in for several years, a chapel, and also see the place of his burial. There are permanent and rotating exhibits. The gift shop offers a variety of DeGrazia reproductions and a lmitied number of origianls are available for purchase. This was a beautiful place to visit. I took lots more pictures, but you really have to see them in person to appreciate.
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