Raymond Hendler

Raymond Hendler (1923–1998) was a Philadelphia born take effect painter whose mature doing began in the ferment of postwar Paris. Supported by the G.I. Bill, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, exhibited at the Musee D’Art Moderne and was one of the founding members of Galerie Huit (the first American helpful gallery in Europe). Through link with André Breton and his circle, Hendler was exposed to surrealism and its meant program - the liberation of the human spirit.

He credited his friend, the Australian sculptor, Robert Klippel, with maintain at a crucial moment that led to a career-defining breakthrough; an excitement that on the go the use of the automatic and the unconscious, he would later attend to to as "serious doodling and judicious scribbling." His upset to progressive, non-objective painting would gain to ostracism by many in the American art colony and engender a productive friendship taking into consideration the French-Canadian tachist painter, Jean-Paul Riopelle.

With his recompense from Paris in 1951, Hendler was introduced to the burgeoning New York art scene. There he met and befriended many of the important figures of an emerging vanguard. He was a voting zealot of the New York Artists Club from 1951 until its terminate in 1957. A near friendship bearing in mind the painter, Franz Kline, would significantly notify his work.

Throughout the fifties, he participated in numerous exhibitions including; “an American, one-man premiere,” at the Dublin Galleries in Philadelphia, “fresh from Paris” and historic invitationals at the Camino, March and Stable Galleries in New York. For the epoch of the 1960s he was represented by Rose Fried.

In 1962, for a one-man comport yourself at the Rose Fried Gallery, Franz Kline wrote in a forward for the exhibition catalogue, “Since first I motto Hendler’s paintings in 1952 they have developed into a larger simpler form arriving at a personally abstract image controlled within a painted space. The concentrate on austere design and color complexes paint the image without undue nuances - with clarity and epoch independence.”

In 1963, Hendler traditional the Longview Foundation Purchase Award, juried by Willem de Kooning, Thomas Hess, Philip Guston, Harold Rosenberg and David Smith. He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1968 until he retired, a full professor, in 1984. Having made several trips to the Hamptons to visit art world contacts through the years; he relocated in 1986 afterward his wife, the painter, Mary Rood; building a house in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods - where he lived and painted until his death in 1998. His produce a result is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City.

Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
3.Rose Fried Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1962

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