Op Art serigraph by Richard Anuszkiewicz published  in 1972 by Licht Editions. Presented in a 3/4 inch wide white metal frame, white conservation mat, and protected by Tru Vue Optium Museum Acrylic® glazing.  Mat opening size: 12 x 14 inches; overall size with frame: 18 x 20 inches. As with all of our framed art, the frame and framing materials are new.  The print is in excellent. near-mint condition, having never been displayed, and once framed is stored in a controlled environment away from light.

Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930 -2020), was an American painter abd printmaker, who was among the originators of Optical Art (Op Art), a style concerned with visual sensation and the effect of optical illusion.  Anuszkiewicz studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Yale University School of Art and Architecture (under Josef Albers), and Kent State University.  In his life, he was the recipient of many awards, including the Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement in 2000.  His artwork are held in over 70 institution collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Guggenheim Museum, Fogg Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Anuszkiewicz once said "people thought that I always wanted to shock the eye... I didn’t want to shock the eye. I wanted to use colors together that had never been used together before".