Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face architectural and then (I think) feet

and then (I think) feet of sorts carved at bottom

This winder with lyrical form and gorgeous old green paint on one side is pure found sculpture to me (I thought of Richard Tuttle when I spotted it)

which I find wonderfully direct

plus a few different couples identified only with initials) along with various doodles

Edwin Kosarek 1959 Ink on Card Drawing, Emergent Face architectural and then (I think) feetA 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