Edwin Kosarek 1950 Ink Portrait of Woman With Long Hair circus carousel and some a little old

and some a little old glue on a few of the short sides

and she reminds me of a waif from Dickens or the like

)  I presume it is an upside down strawberry carved into the spoon of the spoon

in what I believe it its original paint

Edwin Kosarek 1950 Ink Portrait of Woman With Long Hair circus carousel and some a little oldAnother portrait by Edwin Kosarek, such a maker of good drawings I think, with a bit of a Kiki Smith feeling to this portrait, though pre dating Smith's emergence by 30+ years. (I especially love the curl at the end of this woman's long mane of hair, drawn in tiny black ink dots.) I purchased it 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