Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded and this shallow stoneware bowl

and this shallow stoneware bowl is a great size to use for serving vegetables or grains or whatever

and thought surely someone would have creative use for them

Most date to the 1850s-70s and a couple appear to be written in the same (beautiful and precise) hand

and really love the wispiness and delicacy of these six

Hand-thrown of porcelain

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine folded and this shallow stoneware bowlI 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