Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded 13 5/8” x 8 1/8”

13 5/8” x 8 1/8” x 7 1/8” t and in very good condition

And I'd certainly bet he imagined himself as the little pilot he's made sure to include in each of them

Most date to the 1850s-70s and a couple appear to be written in the same (beautiful and precise) hand

immediately recognizable

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded 13 5/8” x 8 1/8”I 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