DeGrazia Gallery In the Sun

Ted DeGrazia built this place with his own hands. A Tucson-born artist known for his loose, colorful paintings of the Southwest and its peoples, DeGrazia raised an adobe compound in the Catalina foothills in the 1950s, a rambling gallery and a small mission chapel he shaped from desert earth and let weather as it would. He meant the buildings to be part of the art. The Gallery in the Sun is now a museum of his work, one of the few artist-built landmarks in Arizona on the National Register.

What the plaque says

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, October 12, 2006, by the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tucson — 8.4 mi
  The Old Pueblo — four thousand years of farming under the sky islands
• Mission San Xavier del Bac — 16 mi
  The White Dove of the Desert — the finest Spanish Baroque church in the country
• Saguaro National Park — 19 mi
  The giant cactus, and the O'odham who count it as kin

More markers nearby

• Chapel of San Pedro at Fort Lowell — 4.2 mi
• Cavalry Barracks and Band Barracks — 4.3 mi
• Fort Lowell — 4.4 mi
• Airmen Memorial Bridge — 6.3 mi