WINTER PARK, FL— The Cornell Fine Arts Museum announces a public lecture on contemporary portraiture by Anne Collins Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is scheduled on Tuesday, March 14, at 7 p.m. in the Winifred Johnson Clive Gallery.  A Rollins College Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Dr. Goodyear will be presenting “Head Games: The Conundrums of Contemporary Portraiture.”

 Goodyear is a Guggenheim Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian.  Her doctoral thesis, from the University of Texas, Austin, was based on the relationship between art and technology focusing upon the years 1957 to 1971.  She contributed to the National Portrait Gallery exhibition catalogue Eye Contact:  Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery and to The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum with the essay "Camille Pissarro: The Hermitage at Pontoise."  Her scholarship has appeared in ArtPapers, Apollo, Art Journal and most importantly in the revision of "Sixties Abstraction for H.H. Arnason and Marla Prather's History of Modern Art, 4th edition, Harry N. Abrams, 1994.  She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the College Art Association.

 The lecture will supplement the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s current exhibition “Eye to Eye,” on view through April 23, which examines the direct gaze of portraiture with works dating from c. 1561 to 2005.