Eve Borsook Children: Did Eve Borsook Have Kids?

Eve Borsook was a Canadian-born American art historian, teacher and author, with specialization in murals (both wall paintings and mosaics).

She was born on October 3, 1929 and died on August 31, 2022 at age 92.

Did Eve Borsook have kids? Borsook kept her personal life under the wraps so it is not known whether she had children.

Borsook was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to parents Henry Borsook (1897-1984), an English-born biochemist and the Austrian-born Lisl (née Hummel).

Henry’s hobby was art history, which may well have been an early influence on his daughter, for Eve Borsook received a BA in the History of Art from Vassar College, New York in 1949.

She went on to the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, completing her MA in 1952 with a dissertation on the early Baroque painter Carlo Saraceni (her supervisor was the German art historian, Walter Friedlander).

While pursuing her graduate studies, Borsook was also working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Much of Borsook’s later work took place at the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies). She was appointed research associate there (1981-1989), then senior research associate (2003-2015), and was later senior research associate emeritus.

She also taught as a visiting professor at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, as well as other institutes in the USA, Italy and Australia.

She declined a Samuel H. Kress Professorship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC as the fellowship would have involved a year’s absence from her work in Italy.

In 1999 more than 20 art historians provided essays for the publication of a book titled Mosaics of friendship: studies in art and history for Eve Borsook as a 70th birthday tribute to Borsook.