"I know Andre Emmerich had no interest in showing me as a black artist. He was only concerned in showing me as a very gifted artist."

Peter Bradley was well positioned as abstract expressionism hit a new American zenith in New York City in the 1960s and 70s. A subset movement would be labeled as “color field” by his friend and art critic, Clement Greenberg. It was the style he embraced as an artist. “To me abstract painting is all about color. The main thing about making art and music is color. Color represents itself boldly and there’s all kinds of color in nature,” he stated in an interview. Bradley had been encouraged in his art by his mother. He studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit and Yale University in New...