Poet of Tolstoy Park

A typewriter and a view through the trees reference Henry Stuart, the man at the center of one of Montrose, Alabama’s most enduring local legends. Painted on two fragments of historic stoneware, The Poet of Tolstoy Park remembers the quiet, unconventional life Stuart created along the Eastern Shore and the tiny round house that still preserves his story.

Year: 2026
 Medium: Oil on two historic pottery fragments
 Pottery: Albany-slipped stoneware, primarily c. 1880–1920
 Locality: Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Ala.
 Framed dimensions: 12.5 × 15.5 in.
 Original artwork: One of a kind