Reginald H. Neal was an American painter and graphic artist, who is famous for his op art

Op art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions."Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made...

 works.

Neal was born in Leicester

Leicester

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, England. He moved to Decatur, Illinois

Decatur, Illinois

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. He received his BA from Bradley University

Bradley University

Bradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....

 and his master's degree in history from Chicago University in 1939. His op art works explored optical elements that produced vibrating, flickering and pulsating effects. He is well known as a teacher as well. He taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Mexico and the Contemporaries Graphic Center, New York.

Neal participated in The Responsive Eye, (Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

, New York, 1965) and Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s (Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus Museum of Art

The Columbus Museum of Art is an art museum located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.-Building:...

, Ohio, 2007).

Works by Neal are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Princeton University

Princeton University

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, New Jersey; The Figge Art Museum

Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum is an art museum in Davenport, Iowa. The Figge, as it is commonly known, has an encyclopedic collection and serves as the major art museum for the eastern Iowa and western Illinois region...

, Illinois; and Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

, Utah.

He died in 1992.