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

[3] He traveled to Paris around in 1949 under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the G.I.

There he studied at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and was a founding member of the Galerie Huit.

For a time he served as head of the painting department.

[3] In 1963, Hendler received the Longview Foundation Purchase Award, juried by Willem de Kooning, Thomas B. Hess, Philip Guston, Harold Rosenberg, and David Smith.