
Richard Anuszkiewicz ART FOR SALE
1930 Erie, Pennsylvania - 2020 Englewood, New Jersey. Known for: Optical art illusion, collage, graphics.
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955.... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955. Albers stirred his interest in the effects of color on perception but Anuszkiewicz did not actively pursue this matter until the 1960s when he worked in repeated geometric patterns, emanating in wave-like shapes from the center of the canvas. In the... Read full biography
With a name synonymous with the Op Art movement, Richard Anuskiewicz first achieved international fame when he was included in a 1965 survey of "optical art" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Today he is recognized as one of the foremost colorists in American art, creating huge large-scale canvases. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953 and then with Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned an M.F.A. degree in 1955. Albers stirred his interest in the effects of color on perception but Anuszkiewicz did not actively pursue this matter until the 1960s when he worked in repeated geometric patterns, emanating in wave-like shapes from the center of the canvas. In the 1970s, much of his work looked like computer printouts and were intended to investigate the effects of juxtaposed ful... Read full biography
Richard Anuszkiewicz - Art for Sale (5 available)

Type:Painting
Year:1977-2015
Size:24.75" x 24.75"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Signed

Deep Blue Square
Type:Painting
Year:1981
Size:12.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Verso
Notes:
Framed dimensions: 13 x 13 inches (33 x 33 cm) Signed, titled and dated verso: Richard Anuszkiewicz 1981 Deep Blue Square Provenance: Private Collection, CA

Untitled
Type:Painting
Year:1964
Size:24.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
This classic example of Richard Anuszkiewicz's Op art includes its original welded aluminum frame.

Light Magenta Square
Type:Painting
Year:1978
Size:60.00" x 60.00" x 2.00"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Verso
Notes:
Richard Anuszkiewicz, American (1930 - ) Title: Light Magenta Square Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)

Metallic Water
Type:Painting
Year:1964
Size:36.00" x 36.00" x 2.00"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Signed and Dated
Edition:Unique
Notes:
This dazzling Op Art painting was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964, and bears the original exhibition label, originally sold by the J.L. Hudson Gallery. Created in 1964 when he was represented by Sidney Janis Gallery - and the year he was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine.




