Richard Anuszkiewicz

The Fourth of the Three
1963

A vibrant optical illusion featuring a grid of blue squares on a red background, with a central area where the squares appear to be green due to the overlapping blue grid and yellowish hue, creating a striking contrast and a sense of depth.

A vibrant optical illusion featuring a grid of blue squares on a red background, with a central area where the squares appear to be green due to the overlapping blue grid and yellowish hue, creating a striking contrast and a sense of depth.

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Date
1963

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic on composition board

Dimensions
Overall: 48 1/16 × 48 1/16in. (122.1 × 122.1 cm)

Accession number
64.4

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© Richard Anuszkiewicz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/1511

Exhibitions

Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s

Mar 29–Aug 18, 2019

Richard Anuszkiewicz
21 works in the collection

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