At the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains is the ten-acre complex, the "DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun." A national historic district, the grounds are a blend of natural desert garden, adobe-architecture and museum--all the vision of one man. Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia (1909-1982) remains one of Tucson's iconic artistic characters--born in an AZ mining town to Italian immigrants, Native American themes permeate his work.

In one of his more notorious acts, in the 1970's he burned a hundred of his own artworks to protest the 'inheritance tax;' transported by horse into the Superstition Mountains, an estimated million-and-a-half dollars' worth went up in smoke...

In addition to his paintings and drawings, you can appreciate what he built--the chapel, his studio, the house...and he's buried on the grounds...