Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face walnut whimsy Inhabited by three animals and

Inhabited by three animals and a tiny lady I found with it

and I would guess this dates to the late 40s or 50s

as if the figure were far away from mountainous landscape in the distance

as if its maker was needing to play at that very moment and so carved out the board as expeditiously as possible

I've got a soft spot for antique shoe-shaped snuff boxes

Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face walnut whimsy Inhabited by three animals andA 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