Earlier this week, I did a spotlight on one of the mysterious residents of the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis cemetery in Old San Juan: Reba Stewart. This once amazing artist has become an urban legend to those who stumble upon her beautifully engraved tomb, inspiring the “witch” stories that first drove me to her.

So now in honor of Reba Stewart’s life and mythos, I present you with some of her art work.

Mobile / made from driftwood she collected from behind the cemetery/ 1961-1962

Mobile/ made from driftwood/ 1961-1962

“Tree Forms in Black” / Japanese woodblock print

Booklet/ Japanese woodblock print

Tanguo Bay #1/ Felt pen/ May 28 1969/ drawn in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Sea and Sky/ pen and ink with wash

These haunting works serve as proof of the amazing talent that was Stewart. They leave a trace of the passion and vision for Old San Juan and Puerto Rico that kept her here until her death from malaria in 1971.