Name Douglas Roberts Role Basketball player | Height 2.01 m Salary 915,243 USD (2015) | |
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NBA draft 2008, Brooklyn Nets (Round: 2 / Pick: 40) Number 17 (Los Angeles Clippers / Small forward, Shooting guard) Education Northwestern High School, Cass Technical High School Similar People Joey Dorsey, Doc Rivers, Phil Jackson, Steve Clifford, Don Nelson Profiles | ||
Philip Douglas Roberts (1919–1976), always referred to as Douglas Roberts, was a South Australian painter and art critic.
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History
Roberts was born in Kadina, South Australia, the youngest son of Albert John Roberts (ca.1874 – 3 September 1944) and Sarah Roberts, née Behrmann.
Educated at Kadina, he was a keen cricketer, and at one time held the batting record for the Yorke Peninsula league. He trained as a teacher and was first appointed to the Thebarton Junior Technical School in 1938.
He was a regular art critic for both South Australia daily newspapers and the Sunday Mail.
He was a foundation member of the South Australian branch of the Contemporary Art Society
He was a senior lecturer at the South Australian School of Arts, then acting principal 1957–1958 and principal 1964– .
Selected works
The Art Gallery of South Australia holds some fourteen of his paintings.
Family
He married Vera Piggott Southwell, née Southwell (1922–2009) on 22 March 1947. Vera's first husband, Peter Morphett Piggott (12 November 1920 – 30 December 1941) died while serving with RAAF in England.