DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
I visited DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun this week in Tucson, Arizona. I wanted to go to see what his studio would look like. Art studios are on my mind. Ed DuBrow my father in-law, gave Jeffrey and me five Degrazia lithographs when we initially moved out to Goodyear, Arizona. I have always wanted to learn more about the inspiration behind these sun baked Mexican children selling birds and riding horses.
I would have become fast friends with this guy Ted. He didn't just cut down his century plant stalks, no, he made an outdoor courtyard with an eclectic mix of mummified desert trees. He could have just cut a lot of things up and thrown them away but he didn't. His hands touched everything on these grounds in some way. He probably had terrible nails I am sure of it.
An abobe shed with a patch work of stained glass, corrugated fiberglass panels and burnt boards with back bends to the sun was padlocked. A bench was turned upside down I peeked through a hole that must have been painted by Ted. I am sure during the 1960's this shed wasn't locked up. He might have done some of his best work in this shed. DeGrazia seems to be the kind of guy who would have a tube of oil paint by this tube of toothpaste.
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun, Tucson, Arizona
Now when I look at my DeGrazia lithographs I can see Ted standing there in front of his easel with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth. I can see his large knarly hands gently laying on dark burnt paint with a tiny horse hair brush to get the ends of the children's bangs just right. He kills me with the bangs all coming to a point.
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