Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz  (1930 –2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. The son of Polish immigrants, he developed a geometric style.  He was one of the leading figures in the Op Art movement during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.

Anuszkiewicz trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio (1948–1953), and then with Josef Albers at the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT (1953–1955) where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts.

Anuszkiewicz was concerned with the optical changes that occur when different high-intensity colors are applied to the same geometric configurations. Most of his work comprises visual investigations of formal structural and color effects, many of them nested square forms similar to the work of his mentor Josef Albers. His work can be found in important museums across the country.

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