Antique & Vintage Postcards

Ted DeGrazia — Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia, the beloved Tucson artist whose round-faced Los Niños children became one of the most recognized images in American Southwest art — appears here in his element: a battered felt cowboy hat, red flannel shirt, and gray beard, palette knife in hand, working at an outdoor easel with bare winter cottonwoods overhead and adobe walls behind. The painting on the canvas is his famous Los Niños, the original oil from which UNICEF printed and sold four million Christmas card boxes, making it one of the best-selling charity art reproductions of the twentieth century. This chrome postcard, photographed by Robert Davis of Cary, Illinois, was produced by the Gallery in the Sun (DeGrazia's own museum at 6300 North Swan, Tucson, Arizona) as a promotional piece — a collectible in its own right for DeGrazia enthusiasts and Southwest art fans alike.