Ettore (Ted) DeGrazia (1909-1982) was an artist of Italian origin (Calabria Amantea) but has lived and expressed in the style of "South West", of Tucson Southern Arizona and Mexico.
His poetic, naive and "primitive" is open to the influences of Native spirituality as well as the influence of Hispanic Catholicism . He experienced working in the Bisbee's copper mines with his father for a while.
In 1941 he studied with Mexican painters Diego Rivera and JC Oroscoa and in 1944 he built his first gallery in adobe, which from 1951 will be the "DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun", and to which were added a small church (Mission in the Sun) and other small buildings.
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