Stuart Harwood led an extraordinary life. In addition to being active in the Coastal Arts League for many years, he was a SeaBee on the island of Palau during the Korean war, a Fulbright Scholar, a building contractor, the caretaker of Peninsula School for many years, and a sculptor in Palo Alto.

Stuart's sculptures have appeared in over 200 shows in CA, 4 dozen+ in NY, 6 dozen in USA, and 11 internationally since 1951. He also had 41 solo shows, won 100+ Awards, a Fulbright in Italy 1956-57 (where he copied the first Michelangelo Sculptures to learn his Picassoid system of distortion), and turned back from reversing Moore and flirting with abstraction. His large sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Whitney and Rochester NY museums, and in numerous private collections.

Stuart had extensive first-hand, on-site studies of other cultures. As he wrote: "My Dyslexia made for one-to-one or self-education; I can only do it the way I see it. Known as a 'Materialist', not in the usual sense, (far from it!). With a mastery of a wide range of materials, I have yet to find my limits; always searching for how to see our old problems in new ways, using usually the daily surround rather than 'Precious' or 'Eternal' stuff."

Stuart will be missed, and was a true contributor to the arts.