Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine 1907 postcard They are done in graphite

They are done in graphite on each page with the backs left blank

played with two dice and four pieces per player

And Bridget his bride among them

I believe this is an old bait/tackle bag

or perhaps his wife

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine 1907 postcard They are done in graphiteI 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