“Ted”DeGrazia 1909 – 1982
Gallery of the Sun – Tucson, Arizona
Known for his colorful images of Native American children of the American Southwest and a series of exhibitions like Papago Legends, Padre Kino, and Cabeza de Vaca.
His Gallery of the Sun is still open to the public in Tucson, Arizona
He became one of the most widely reproduced artists, To protest inheritance taxes on his works of art, DeGrazia hauled about 100 of his paintings on horsebackinto the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix and set them ablaze in 1976.