Suzanne Boorsch

Suzanne Boorsch was the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery. She is a specialist in Renaissance old master prints and the art of Andrea Mantegna.

Early life and education

Boorsch received her M.A. in 1974 and her M.Phil. in 1977, both from New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Career

She was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and since October 2000 she has been the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery.[1]

Boorsch is a specialist in Renaissance old master prints and the art of Andrea Mantegna. She is also an authority on the work of the American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler.

Boorsch has curated numerous exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum and Yale. In 2016, she was the co-curator of the exhibition Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at Yale.[2]

Selected publications
  • The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985. (With Michal and R.E. Lewis)
  • Andrea Mantegna, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1992. (joint editor with Jane Martineau, exhibition catalogue)
  • The French Renaissance in prints. Grunwald Center, UCLA, 1994. ISBN 0962816221 (Contributor, Jacobson, Karen (ed), often wrongly cat. as George Baselitz)
  • Venetian prints and books in the age of Tiepolo. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.
  • Master drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006. (With John J. Marciari) ISBN 978-0300114331

References
  1. Suzanne Boorsch. Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  2. "Meant to Be Shared": One man’s passion for European prints at Yale. New Haven Register, 1 August 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2017.



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