The Tucson Art Museum & Raphael Collazo

The first Sunday of every month is free day at the Tucson Art Museum. The banner exhibition was about one hundred and thirty years of the Grand Canyon. Quite impressive, particularly the silver and albumin prints made from what were, probably, glass plate negatives, from the late 1880s. There was also an etching and two woodcuts that were very different; each had innumerable color ways.

When the museum expanded, I don't know how many years ago, the architect chose to go down rather than up to show respect to the adobe structures of the original pueblo. So you wind your way down concrete ramps that surround a square, open, center. It gives you the ability to view the art is a lot of varying focal lengths.

As you get towards the bottom you get glimpses of the exhibitions at the very bottom of the museum.







I got a glimpse of All Soul's Day, © 1988, by Raphael Collazo. Mixed media on panel, it was 96" x 108." I am placing it here, respectfully, under the fair use for educational purposes doctrine of the copyright law.







This is one of the images from a series called A Healing Garden. For the Good of Us All, 1987, Mixed media on panel, 96 x 108