Stephen Foster Fine Arts - Raymond Hendler Estate

In 1964 Georgine Oeri, a noted curator and art historian wrote in Quadrum (The International Magazine of Modern Art);

"Raymond Hendler's work has vitality and freshness, a joyful, even playful exuberance. In his early work (which was close to, but independent of Pollock); he spread the overall web of linear forms as so many borderlines, between that the first place of human awareness and that which is outside it, between the discovered and the undiscovered world, between "l'etre et le neant" ("being and nothingness").

Raymond Hendler (1923-1998)

Raymond Hendler was a first generation action painter whose mature work began in Paris in 1949, independent from the New York scene. While in Paris, supported by the GI Bill, Hendler was one of the founding members of Galerie Huit and studied at Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.

Upon his return from Paris in 1951, he became active in the New York art scene. He was a voting member of the original New York Artists' Club from 1951 until the end of 1957. He met and befriended important figures of the time such as Franz Kline, Harold Rosenberg and others. He participated in numerous exhibitions including The Stable Gallery Invitational in 1952.

From 1952-54 he was founder and director of the Hendler Galleries, the first "avant garde" gallery in Philadelphia, PA. He exhibited: Willem DeKooning, Sam Feinstein, Sanford Greenberg, Philip Guston, Shirley Jaffe, Robert Keyser, Franz Kline, George McNeil, Stephen Pace, Jackson Pollock, Melville Price, Milton Resnick, Robert Richenburg, Doris Staffel and Jack Tworkov. He was the first to introduce to America the work of friends whom he met in Paris: Paul-Emile Borduas, Sam Francis, and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Hendler was represented by the Rose Fried Gallery in New York City for over 12 years, until her death in 1970.

Works Exhibited:
Musee D'art Moderne, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Permanent Collections:
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
New York University, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
University of New Mexico, Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Estate Jean-Paul Riopelle