Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture clay bird which is definitely the case

which is definitely the case with this old carved one

so I don't think it has anything to do with that

and I especially love the facial expressions

engraving tools

with an indent in the rounded top which seems as if made to meet a flat head screwdriver or coin in order to twist off the top

Edwin Kosarek 1953 Graphite Portrait of Veiled Woman with Architecture clay bird which is definitely the caseI 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