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Today’s courtyard blooms! 🌸🌵🌸

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After nine years of creating and maintaining our social media accounts, I want to let all our amazing followers know that this will be my last post. I cannot thank you enough for being so supportive all these years. All the wonderful comments, likes, and sharing your DeGrazia stories made my job so fulfilling and for that I will be forever grateful!

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Save the date, monochromatic grey oil paintings of Ted DeGrazia are the subject of "DeGrazia in Black and White", a new exhibit at the Gallery in the Sun Museum. Dating from 1940 to 1972, this series includes portraits of the artist’s cats, landscapes, street scenes and depictions of dynamic action. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5-7 pm on September 1st, 2023, and the exhibit will remain on display through January 24th, 2024. The opening reception is free and open to the public!

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Happy National Cactus Day! 🌵

DeGrazia’s “With Love and Thorns”, is available as a print and a small notecard. Please click on the link for more information, https://degrazia.org/shop/with-love-and-thorns-2/.

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DeGrazia said, “Not to know a rule in art and break it is bad art, but to know a rule and break it is good art. Only by knowing the rules and breaking them will one develop an individual style.”

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Like most of DeGrazia’s oil paintings, this was done with a palette knife using very bold strokes.🎨

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Happy Easter from all of us at the Gallery in the Sun Museum! The gallery is closed today but will resume regular business hours tomorrow. 🐇🐣🐇

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Following a regional tradition of building a chapel or shrine in thanks, DeGrazia’s goal was an adobe mission built from the ground up at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Marion DeGrazia said, “The desert was all his as far as the eye could see. There it was beautiful. It was quiet. He did not disturb the desert. He became a part of it.” Happy Throwback Thursday!

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“The minute I had a chance to get out I’d go to the mountains. I use to like to dream and look and think…the pretty colors fascinated me.” -Ted DeGrazia

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In the early 1970’s, DeGrazia created a series of astrological paintings, drawings, and essays. Many have requested that I share the series with you as the zodiac signs change so here is a photo of DeGrazia’s “Pisces”. Have a great birthday month! 🎏♓️

Our 2023 annual calendars feature all the oil paintings from the series “DeGrazia Paints the Signs of the Zodiac”. These pages can be matted and framed for those who ask about reproductions. Call our gift shop at 520-299-9191 or click https://degrazia.org/product-category/cards-and-calendars/calendars/ to place your order! 

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We hope you have a meaningful Memorial Day! The Gallery in the Sun Museum is open today from 10:00am-4:00pm.

DeGrazia’s “Sunflower Girl”, oil on canvas, nd.

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In a nod to popular culture in the early 1970’s, Southwestern artist Ted DeGrazia created a series of astrological paintings, drawings, and essays. Here is a photo of DeGrazia's “Leo” from his Zodiac Series, have a great birthday month! ♌️🦁

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"I think Ted DeGrazia had a talent that was completely different. His own, wonderful art gave forth a legacy like nobody else’s art." –Cele Peterson, Fashionista, Entrepreneur and Tucson Advocate

DeGrazia’s "Eight Women”, watercolor, no date.

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Happy Birthday Arizona and Happy Valentine’s Day! 🌵❤️🌵

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“The cactus of the desert in its prickly silence bursts forth for a moment of exquisite beauty. ” –Arizona Artist Ted DeGrazia.

"Desert Spring”, watercolor, 1952. This beautiful piece is available as a reproduction, for more info. please click https://degrazia.org/shop/desert-spring/. 🌸🌵🌸

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We hope your last night of Hanukkah is a true festival of lights! 🕎