Michel Calman at Bath, 1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing ceramic sugar bowl This charming little stoneware owl

This charming little stoneware owl is one in a trio designed by Edvard Lindahl for Gustavsberg Sweden in the 1960s

or playing games with

fancy trim around the perimeter

A striking image

A simple but sweet old carved whimsy

Michel Calman at Bath, 1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing ceramic sugar bowl This charming little stoneware owlOne last drawing by Edwin Kosarek several of which I purchased 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