Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded and thought surely someone would

and thought surely someone would have creative use for them

Hand-thrown of porcelain

13 5/8” x 8 1/8” x 7 1/8” t and in very good condition

) 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

and really love the wispiness and delicacy of these six

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded and thought surely someone wouldI 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