Peter Bradley's Upstate New York Home and Artistic Legacy

Artist Peter Bradley, 85, lives in a mid-18th-century Georgian stone house in Saugerties, New York, which he and his wife Debra Roskowski-Bradley purchased in 1997. The house, lacking modern amenities when first rented, became a restart after Bradley's eviction from a Chinatown firehouse in 1989 following a legal battle. Bradley, a color field painter, arrived in Manhattan from Detroit in 1960, worked at the Guggenheim Museum and Perls Galleries, and became one of the city's first Black art dealers. In 1971, backed by John and Dominique de Menil, he curated "The De Luxe Show" in Houston's Fifth Ward, a racially integrated exhibition featuring Black and white abstract artists. His early works appeared in a 1968 MoMA group show and the 1973 Whitney Biennial, with solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery. The house features design elements inspired by Luis Barragán, a lithograph by Alexander Calder, and an elephant skull from South Africa. Bradley's studio north of the house contains recent in-progress paintings created by pouring acrylic and water onto canvases on the floor.