Raymond Hendler (1923-1998) was an American artist known for his action painting.

Biography

Hendler was born in 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and went on to serve in the

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He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the

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. He traveled to Paris around in 1949 under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the

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). There he studied at the

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and was a founding member of the

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He located in New York City in the early 1950's where he was a member of the ''New York Artists' Club''. In the late 1960's Hendler moved to Minneapolis where he taught at the

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. For a time he served as head of the painting department. He retired in 1984. In 1963, Hendler received the Longview Foundation Purchase Award, juried by Willem de Kooning,

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, Philip Guston, Harold Rosenberg, and David Smith. Hendler died in 1998 in East Hampton, New York. His work is in the collection of the

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, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

References

External links

images of Hendler's work
on ArtNet
Hendler CV
on Berry Campbell website

Biography

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Further reading