Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded He will balance on his

He will balance on his own in a few different positions and is easily hung on the wall via the hole in his belly

) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem

With an old wire wrapped around a few nails for hanging

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

and really love the wispiness and delicacy of these six

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded He will balance on hisI 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