Folks flocked to view paintings, photographs, sculptures, and watercolors by 60 artists depicting DeGrazia at a 2012 event.
Kindle your imagination at the DeGrazia Gallery
At the studio where Ted DeGrazia lived, worked and died, reader Terry Wangsness remembers many Sunday visits. “I lived close by,” Wangsness told the Star on Facebook, and “I loved going there.”
We still can. Tucson’s most famous artist, who would have turned 106 next month, still has a big presence in Southern Arizona: the massive gallery and museum housing his paintings, figurines and plates at 6300 N. Swan Road. Writing in the Nov. 9, 2014, Star, Kevin Howard gave an architect’s perspective: “Unencumbered by the rules, this master artist had intuitively and vigorously incorporated raw material, use of light, forced perspective and scale in a unique way. To call it a mere building doesn’t seem quite right. It is a place in the desert, a retreat. I have returned there over the years to remind myself that the only limitation is our own imagination.”
