Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture clay bird engraving tools

engraving tools

which is definitely the case with this old carved one

was finished with a hardened varnish or shellac and bears a great rich patina

where it might inspire all sorts of things

with no cracks or breaks

Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture clay bird engraving toolsI purchased this and a few other drawings by Edwin Kosarek from a dealer who had purchased a good number of them plus a journal kept by Kosarek, which provided a little biographical information. What I know is that he was from New Jersey (b. 1929) but spent a good part of the 1950s in Mexico, after which he briefly attended Cooper Union. He was gay, and estranged from his family, and, it seems increasingly mentally ill, with not much record of him