Peter Bradley (born September 15, 1940)[4] is an American painter and sculptor and former art dealer.
[5] He attended the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit and Yale University.
He later donated his papers from this period to the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
[7] In 1971 while associate director of the Perls Galleries, Bradley curated The De Luxe Show under the auspices of the famed de Menil family in Houston, Texas, considered to be one of the early racially integrated art exhibitions in the United States.
[8] Bradley is known to have had a direct effect on the New New Painters, a group with a core of nine abstract artists that developed in 1978 coincident with the invention and development of acrylic gel paint by the paint chemist Sam Golden.