Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture anchor weight Elegant and cheerful both

Elegant and cheerful both

they still have full packets of needles inside

The mending is white on white (two linen squares sewn on as second layers plus a double border square sewn in white thread)

but a good one to hang in a kid's room now I'd say

things unseen and below the surface

Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture anchor weight Elegant and cheerful bothI 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