Peter Bradley (artist)

Peter Bradley (born 1940 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania) is an American painter and sculptor and former art dealer. He attended the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit and Yale University. His put-on was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. As an art dealer he was the partner director of the Perls Galleries from 1968 until 1975. He well along donated his papers from this get older to the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1971 while join director of the Perls Galleries, Bradley curated the "Deluxe Show" under the support of the famed de Menil relatives in Houston, Texas, considered to be one of the forward racially integrated art exhibitions in the United States.

Bradley is known to have had a talk to effect upon the New New Painters, a group in the same way as a core of nine abstract artists that developed in 1978 coincident taking into account the invention and progress of acrylic gel paint by the paint chemist Sam Golden.

Bradley's performance is held in the enduring collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; African American Museum (Lose Angeles); André Emmerich Gallery; The Industrial Bank of Japan, Hong Kong; Aldrich Museum; Hayward Museum; University of Sydney; Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio; Chairman Bank, Boston, MA; Johannesburg Art Foundation, South Africa; Witherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina; Art Museum of West Virginia University; the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford Connecticut.

Bradley is currently represented by the Karma Gallery in New York City.