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10.00" x 7.50"
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12.00" x 9.50"
Kuster House Art Print
by James B Toy
$26.56
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Kuster House art print by James B Toy. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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This magnificent stone house on Carmel Point was built by Edward Ted Kuster a... more
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This magnificent stone house on Carmel Point was built by Edward "Ted" Kuster a former Los Angeles attorney who founded Carmel's Golden Bough Theater in the early 1920s. Kuster built this house in an attempt to lure back his former wife Una, who had run off to Carmel with the famous poet Robinson Jeffers.
Jeffers had built the now famous Tor House less than a block away, and Kuster decided that if Una wanted to live in a big stone house he'd just build a better one. Alas, the effort failed, but the story has a happy ending. Kuster remarried, the two wives became close friends and their kids grew up playing together.
The story includes a personal footnote. In the early 1990s when I worked at the Golden Bough (then a cinema) I researched the history of the theater. When I told my mother what I had learned about Ted Kuster she said "Oh, yes, Ted Kuster was our neighbor in Carmel Valley when you were born...
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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