Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture antique sunderland 5" long x 2" tall

5" long x 2" tall x 1 1/4" wide and in very good antique condition

15 Brewer Street

in absence of a face

and quintessentially Arts & Crafts triangle-shaped cutouts with slightly rounded corners along the front

done as early school exercises as means of teaching color and composition (as well as manual dexterity

Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture antique sunderland 5" long x 2" tallI 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