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Jun Nakamura

Princeton University, Princeton University Art Museum, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings

Washington University in St. Louis, Art History and Arcaheology, Alumnus

Southern Methodist University, Art History, Alumnus

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Suzanne Andree Curatorial Fellow

University of Michigan, History of Art, Alumnus

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I am a curator, art historian, and printmaker/doodler.

My research interests are seventeenth-century Dutch topics and the history of printmaking. I am particularly interested in histories of science, technology, knowledge, travel, and collecting. I have worked on Hendrick Goltzius, Hercules Segers, anatomical illustration, Dutch dollhouses, Dutch painters in Suriname and Brazil, perspective boxes, and depictions of space.

PhD, University of Michigan, 2022
MA, Southern Methodist University, 2013
BFA, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010

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Articles by Jun Nakamura

Seeing Outside the Box: Reexamining the Top of Samuel van Hoogstraten’s London Perspective Box

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2020

https://jhna.org/articles/seeing-outside-the-box-reexamining-the-top-of-samuel-van-hoogstratens-l... more

Small Worlds: Making Sense of the Microcosm in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Dollhouses

Arts in Society: Academic Rhapsodies, 2020

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/84706

On Hercules Segers’s ‘Printed Paintings’

Printing Colour 1400–1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions, 2015

Hercules Segers at the National Gallery of Art

by Jun Nakamura and Marion Houstoun

Washington Print Club Quarterly - Spring 2014 (Vol. 50, No. 1)

Blog posts by Jun Nakamura

The Omval Defaced: Thoughts on Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutor

Leiden Arts in Society Blog, 2019

A blogpost that examines a curious late state of Rembrandt's etching, The Omval—largely dismissed... more

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Leiden Arts in Society Blog, 2019

A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contempora... more

Book Reviews by Jun Nakamura

Review of Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda Spira, et. al., The Renaissance of Etching

Early Modern Low Countries, 2020

https://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.136/

Review of Huigen Leeflang et al., Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, 2017

https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/hercules-segers-painter-etcher/

Conferences and Talks by Jun Nakamura

Copies, Originals, and In-betweens: Distributing Authorship in Prints in the Netherlands c. 1600

Presented (virtually) at Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference

The Diachronic Print: Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutors

Invited public (virtual) lecture at Middlebury College

Registering the Matrix: Printing Matrices as Sites of Artistic Mediation

Conference Panel, 2020

Session sponsored by the Association of Print Scholars, organizer and chair. College Art Associa... more

Nulla dies sine linea: Theorizing lines in seventeenth-century Dutch print, drawing, and calligraphy

Academic Talk, 2019

Tappan Talk delivered at University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI.

Printerly Pedagogy, or: Printing Drawing and Drawing Print

Academic Talk, 2019

Presented at Leiden University as part of the Kress Fellows colloquium; Leiden, NL.

Grids and Spirals: Reconsidering the Reproductive (Style) in Print

Academic Talk, 2019

Invited talk at the University of Amsterdam as part of Onderzoeksbijeenkomst series; Amsterdam, NL.

Prints Through the Looking Glass: Transparency and Opacity in the Reproductive Style

Academic Talk, 2018

Presented at Leiden University as part of the Kress Fellows colloquium; Leiden, NL.

Metalpoint in the Early Modern Netherlands

Workshop, 2018

Workshop organizer/presenter (w/ Lydia Aikenhead). A hands-on workshop given in two sessions at t... more Workshop organizer/presenter (w/ Lydia Aikenhead). A hands-on workshop given in two sessions at the Historians of Netherlandish Art conference; Ghent, BE. Presented again for a study group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for Columbia University’s Making and Knowing Project, Center for Science and Society; New York, NY.

Prints and Printedness: Mark-making, Meaning, and Perceptions of Print in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Pecha Kucha Presentation, 2018

Presented as part of a Pecha Kucha panel of emerging scholars at the Historians of Netherlandish ... more

Perspectival Gardens Amongst the Ruins: Of Rollwerk and Ruins in Lorenz Stoer’s Geometria et Perspectiva

Conference Paper, 2016

Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference; Bruges, BE.

Lines and Boats // Boats and Lines: on the Printiness of Penschilderijen

Conference Paper, 2016

Presented at the American Association of Netherlandic Studies 18th Biennial International Confere... more

Cutting Through the Mess of the Flesh: Embodied Experience in Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis

Poster Presentation, 2015

Poster and object presentations at Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (1560-1730) ... more

Seeing Outside the Box: Reexamining the Top of Samuel van Hoogstraten’s London Perspective Box

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2020

https://jhna.org/articles/seeing-outside-the-box-reexamining-the-top-of-samuel-van-hoogstratens-l... more

Small Worlds: Making Sense of the Microcosm in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Dollhouses

Arts in Society: Academic Rhapsodies, 2020

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/84706

On Hercules Segers’s ‘Printed Paintings’

Printing Colour 1400–1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions, 2015

Hercules Segers at the National Gallery of Art

by Jun Nakamura and Marion Houstoun

Washington Print Club Quarterly - Spring 2014 (Vol. 50, No. 1)

The Omval Defaced: Thoughts on Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutor

Leiden Arts in Society Blog, 2019

A blogpost that examines a curious late state of Rembrandt's etching, The Omval—largely dismissed... more

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Leiden Arts in Society Blog, 2019

A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contempora... more

Review of Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda Spira, et. al., The Renaissance of Etching

Early Modern Low Countries, 2020

https://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.136/

Review of Huigen Leeflang et al., Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher

Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, 2017

https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/hercules-segers-painter-etcher/

Copies, Originals, and In-betweens: Distributing Authorship in Prints in the Netherlands c. 1600

Presented (virtually) at Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference

The Diachronic Print: Rembrandt’s Anonymous Interlocutors

Invited public (virtual) lecture at Middlebury College

Registering the Matrix: Printing Matrices as Sites of Artistic Mediation

Conference Panel, 2020

Session sponsored by the Association of Print Scholars, organizer and chair. College Art Associa... more

Nulla dies sine linea: Theorizing lines in seventeenth-century Dutch print, drawing, and calligraphy

Academic Talk, 2019

Tappan Talk delivered at University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI.

Printerly Pedagogy, or: Printing Drawing and Drawing Print

Academic Talk, 2019

Presented at Leiden University as part of the Kress Fellows colloquium; Leiden, NL.

Grids and Spirals: Reconsidering the Reproductive (Style) in Print

Academic Talk, 2019

Invited talk at the University of Amsterdam as part of Onderzoeksbijeenkomst series; Amsterdam, NL.

Prints Through the Looking Glass: Transparency and Opacity in the Reproductive Style

Academic Talk, 2018

Presented at Leiden University as part of the Kress Fellows colloquium; Leiden, NL.

Metalpoint in the Early Modern Netherlands

Workshop, 2018

Workshop organizer/presenter (w/ Lydia Aikenhead). A hands-on workshop given in two sessions at t... more Workshop organizer/presenter (w/ Lydia Aikenhead). A hands-on workshop given in two sessions at the Historians of Netherlandish Art conference; Ghent, BE. Presented again for a study group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for Columbia University’s Making and Knowing Project, Center for Science and Society; New York, NY.

Prints and Printedness: Mark-making, Meaning, and Perceptions of Print in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Pecha Kucha Presentation, 2018

Presented as part of a Pecha Kucha panel of emerging scholars at the Historians of Netherlandish ... more

Perspectival Gardens Amongst the Ruins: Of Rollwerk and Ruins in Lorenz Stoer’s Geometria et Perspectiva

Conference Paper, 2016

Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference; Bruges, BE.

Lines and Boats // Boats and Lines: on the Printiness of Penschilderijen

Conference Paper, 2016

Presented at the American Association of Netherlandic Studies 18th Biennial International Confere... more

Cutting Through the Mess of the Flesh: Embodied Experience in Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis

Poster Presentation, 2015

Poster and object presentations at Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (1560-1730) ... more

Producing and Consuming Dutch Brazil in the Landscapes of Frans Post

Conference Paper, 2015

Presented at the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Confe... more

Printmaking: An Introduction to its History and Processes

Public Talk, 2014

Three public gallery talks in the print room at the National Gallery of Art; Washington, DC.

A Private Practice: Hercules Segers and the Market for Prints

Academic Talk, 2012

Presented at Graduate Colloquium, Southern Methodist University; Dallas, TX.

Breaks in Line: The Role of Experimentation in the Development of Intaglio Printmaking

Conference Paper, 2012

Presented at ICOHTEC’s 39th annual conference; Barcelona, ES.

A Private Practice: Hercules Segers and the Market for Prints