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John Oliver Hand is an art historian, author, and the curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Education
Hand received a Bachelor of Art in studio art from Denison University in 1963. He earned masters degrees in art history from the University of Chicago and in fine arts from Princeton University. His doctorate in fine arts was awarded by Princeton University in 1978.

Career
Hand worked at the National Gallery of Art from 1965–1969 as a docent in the education department. In 1973 he was hired as curator of northern European paintings. In his capacity as curator, Hand has organized exhibits on the art of many northern painters, including Bruegel, Gerard David, Hans Memling, and Jan van Eyck. Hand is a prolific author and lecturer. On June 1, 2013, Hand led a session at Denison University titled "The Other Renaissance: Painting in Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th Centuries".

Netherlandish diptychs
In 2002–2003, Hand was a member of a team that was awarded a Getty Foundation Collaborative Research Grant. The group received nearly $200,000 to further their study of Early Netherlandish diptychs. The resulting installation was a joint project of the National Gallery, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. The exhibit opened at the National Gallery and later moved to Antwerp.

The installation was documented in Hand's 2006 exhibition catalogue with Ron Spronk and Catherine A. Metzger, titled Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych. The companion volume, Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych, was edited by Hand and Spronk. Prayers and Portraits won the 2007 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America, and was a finalist for the 2008 College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award.

Selected bibliography

 * 1978. "Joos van Cleve: The Early and Mature Works" (PhD dissertation), Princeton University.
 * 1981. "Futurism in America: 1909–14," Art Journal, Vol. 41 (Winter, 1981), p. 337–342.
 * 1986 with Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting: The Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Princeton University Press.
 * 1986 with J. Richard Judson, William W. Robinson, and Martha Wolff. The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, Cambridge University Press.
 * 1990. ""Saint Jerome in His Study" by Joos van Cleve," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Vol. 49, No. 2 (1990), p. 2–10.
 * 1992. "Salve sancta facies: Some Thoughts on the Iconography of the "Head of Christ" by Petrus Christus," Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 27, p. 7–18.


 * 2006 with Ron Spronk and Catherine A. Metzger. Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych, Yale University Press.
 * 2006 with Ron Spronk. Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych, Yale University Press.