20230519X8349
S-4553 30x24x5
Excellent Condition
1988 Printing
Ready to Hang

Ettore "Ted" De Grazia
Untitled 1/1 One of a Kind
Hand Signed
Custom Framed Print


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Frame size is approximately 24 1/2" H x 17 1/2" W
image size approximately 15 3/4" H x 9" W

Please Read ! This one of a kind work is hand signed 1/1 by famed artist Ted De Grazia ~ This work is professionally and beautifully custom framed and ready to display with only very light signs of wear ~ they will enhance the mood and charm of anywhere you choose to display it ~ please see photos for condition details ~ tracking number included with all shipments ~ All items are from a smoke free environment. We ship orders every day, and same day when possible. Your complete satisfaction is our goal!

About the Artist:

The son of Italian immigrants employed in mining, Ted realized early on that his father’s life wasn’t for him, so he hitchhiked to Tucson to study art at the University of Arizona. Struggling for some time, heading to Mexico City to work with Diego Rivera, trying (and failing) to sell his work on the side of a Tucson road—DeGrazia’s road to artistic success was a long one.

The 1940s brought a change in style and methodology (painting with a palette knife, putting his brushes aside), which led to a burst of success that was almost unmanageable for DeGrazia, leading him to work nonstop creating the celebrations of Southwestern life that he’s known for today. By the 1960s, DeGrazia’s work was seen on Hallmark cards and then on a UNICEF holiday card that sold millions of copies.

Whenever the film biography Ettore: The Ted DeGrazia Story is released (not a thing yet, to our knowledge), it’ll be a wild ride of a movie, but the main plot line might be DeGrazia’s labor of love building his studio, home (and eventual resting place), the Gallery in the Sun. Frustrated by the city’s encroachment on his former studio at Campbell Avenue and Prince Road, DeGrazia went farther north, buying 10 acres in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. DeGrazia built on the space, fueled by his passions. As he told an architecture publication, “In my home, my studios...and my new gallery, I have tried to capture the feeling of what I am, and with reverence and respect for the land from which I came. What I find around me is what I use.” While the city has caught up again to DeGrazia’s creation, the Gallery in the Sun is still a refuge drawn around its creator’s vision of the Sonoran Desert.

It’s an amazingly beautiful place–you can tell from the photos you see here or online—but once you walk past the ornamental gates and see the adobe buildings surrounded by the lush vegetation of the desert, there’s a solid chance your breath might be briefly taken away. The buildings, in particular the 16,000-square-foot Gallery in the Sun itself, blend into the landscape, but also exist as one of DeGrazia’s greatest works.

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