Raymond Hendler (1923–1998) was an American artist known for his

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Biography

Hendler was born in 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the

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and went on to serve in the

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He also studied at the

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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 Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and was a founding member of the

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. He located in New York City in the early 1950s where he was a member of the ''New York Artists' Club''. In the late 1960s 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

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, Thomas B. Hess,

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Harold Rosenberg Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 – July 11, 1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for h ...

, and David Smith. Hendler died in 1998 in

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. His work is in the collection of the

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, and the

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References

External links

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

Biography

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Further reading