A couple of images of DeGrazia work from the Gallery in the Sun ...

This is the Stations of the Cross that he did for the Newman Center at the University of Arizona. They ultimately gave the series back to the Foundation because they couldn't afford to insure the work!





A sample oil. Probably was quite inexpensive in its day.




Lastly, one more photo of the lintels in the house. This is in the entryway. I don't really have any closeups.




Now, how do I go about downsizing these pictures. I don't see pixel dimensions in the code.

Love everything about your house - a lucky find. Beautiful.

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

Now, how do I go about downsizing these pictures. I don't see pixel dimensions in the code.

I did some clumsy tech magic and made them smaller.

This is absolutely triggering nostalgia. My folks lived just a few miles from the Gallery in the Sun, and we would go a lot when visiting. A trip there, followed by a visit to the Tohono Chul Haunted Bookshop (alas, no more) and the tea room was a standard afternoon. I think the tea room went dark for awhile but returned as a bistro--not sure. All three locations are lovely.

Beautiful work!

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Originally posted by Nina:
This is absolutely triggering nostalgia.

Sorry for "triggering" you ...

I'll do it again ... here's a DeGrazia mosaic outside the main gallery.




For historical accuracy, this is the developer who bought up the studio and sold the property to be transformed into a gas station.

Dean Cotlow

Cotlow was a very young guy back in the mid to late 80s.

Well, it looks like we might wind up in Santa Fe a little earlier than I had previously imagined. My wife is retiring at the end of the calendar year, and I'm hanging up my spurs at the end of the next academic year.

SK has already introduced me to the issues of moving my piano long distance!

Now, we have to consider where to put it, and what furniture to get rid of as a result.

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

Now, we have to consider where to put it, and what furniture to get rid of as a result.

Our decisions on what to move were based primarily on weight.

The move worked out to about $1.50 per pound and at that rate a lot of our furniture didn’t make the cut.

Your house is beautiful. It looks like a paradise to me.

Where can I find the pillows on the sofa in the first picture? I have been looking for ones like that for a long time.

P*D I love the story of the artwork in your home!

Re your piano.. if it goes in the guest house, might that living room be easier to keep humidified?

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Originally posted by piqué:
Where can I find the pillows on the sofa in the first picture? I have been looking for ones like that for a long time.

Haven't a clue. All the furniture came with the house. They sold it to us "turn key."

They had been living in Florida for several years, and selling off the furniture piecemeal would have been a real pain, so we bundled all the non-art contents of the house and paid them a fixed (and astonishingly small) fee for the interior and exterior furnishings, all the bedding, and all the kitchen appliances and tableware. We had the house on the rental market a few months after we acquired it.

When they bought the place, they hired a designer to create a fully Spanish colonial interior, with good quality stuff. We saw no reason to redesign or refurnish until we were living there permanently. When we move in, we will likely redo a few rooms, but mostly we'll leave well enough alone.

The design of the pillows is similar to what the Spanish weavers near Chimayo make. Here's an example:

Ortega's Weaving

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
P*D I love the story of the artwork in your home!

Re your piano.. if it goes in the guest house, might that living room be easier to keep humidified?

That is very true. I've thought about that. But then the piano is locked away in a separate space, and a pretty small space at that. In the main house, the piano would be a statement in the living room. We would have to redesign the living room to create space for it. The huge wraparound sofa in there (visible in the photo) would have to go, replaced by something much smaller.

BTW, here is a picture of the living room of the guest house, which would indeed be easier to humidify.

As you can probably tell, these are the old staged pictures from when the house was on the market in 2018. Nice fire going in the fireplace and such.

And here's another example of the DeGrazia doodles. This is what's on the fireplace mantel facing the dining room. Given what they've been through since they were installed in the old climate uncontrolled adobe studio in the 1940s, I think they're still quite vibrant.

There is a simple solution to this--I'll come stay in your guest house as a writing retreat and then the piano will get a lot of use.