Arnold Alfred Schmidt, born in 1930 inPlainfield,New Jersey, lived most of his life in New York City. He graduated with an MA from New York'sCooper Union, and worked for years as an Art Director at the Gusso-Hyman Advertising agency on such accounts as Jonathan Logan and Misty Harbor fashions. He later became a Commercial Art teacher at New Jersey'sKearny High School. He died of cancer in 1993.

As a painter of theOp Art movement, his first solo exhibition, "Optical Paintings," opened on October 5, 1964, at theTerrain Gallery in New York, after which he exhibited a painting at theMuseum of Modern Art'sResponsive Eye show, which remains in MOMA's permanent collection. He exhibited "New Paintings" at the Terrain in 1965, and "Shaped Optical Paintings" in 1966, and in 1967 was one of 100 artists taking part in the Terrain's exhibition, "All Art Is for Life & Against the War in Vietnam"[1], a benefit to aid napalm-burned children. His work has been collected by various museums, including theNew Orleans Museum of Art.

Schmidt was married to Anita Schmidt (née Venetian), and had two sons, Arnold Anthony Schmidt and Bob Schmidt.

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