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Path To The Cross Acrylic Print
by James B Toy
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Path To The Cross acrylic print by James B Toy. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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This cross stands on a small hill overlooking Carmel River Beach. It was... more
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This cross stands on a small hill overlooking Carmel River Beach. It was erected in 1944 by Harry Downie, curator of the Carmel Mission, to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Portola-Crespi overland expedition which camped nearby. Their goal was to find Monterey Bay, which had been described in ship logs dating to 1602, and to establish a Spanish settlement there. A supply ship was to meet them there, but was lost at sea.
Due to navigational errors Portola and Crespi didn't realize they had reached their destination, and their supplies were running out. They erected two crosses, one here and another on the north side of what is now known as the Monterey Peninsula, to signal their supply ship. At their bases they buried messages for the ship's crew saying the expedition was returning to San Diego.
Look closely at the hill in the background. Just to the left of the cross there is a scar on the hill...
About James B Toy
In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...
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