Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face antique brass hand This is an absolutely wonderful

This is an absolutely wonderful old hand-carved wooden frame

and the fact that 'ies' in berries is a little scrunched up

It is impossible for me to walk away from things like this

3 5/8" x 2 1/2" and in very good condition

Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face antique brass hand This is an absolutely wonderfulA month or two ago I purchased several drawings by Edwin Kosarek from a dealer who had purchased a good number of them and just went back to the source to buy a few more. 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 after the 1950s. I think