Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine 1907 postcard The plate is quite substantial

The plate is quite substantial

played with two dice and four pieces per player

with levers that can be raised or lowered manually to move the arrows

leaving him with a wide open mouth that looks as if it might be shouting "timberrrrr

many of these lead toy "huns" and "plunderers" are brutal

Edwin Kosarek 1958 Graphite Drawing of Robed Figure Inside Vitrine 1907 postcard The plate is quite substantialI 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