Background
Roberts, Colette Jacqueline was born on September 16, 1910 in Paris, France. Daughter of Alfred Cami and Juliette Emilie Rothschild (de Mulhouse) Levy.
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Colette Jacqueline Roberts
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Bachelor of Arts, Latin-Langues Philosophie, 1928. Student La Sorbonne Institut d’Art et Archeologie, Ecole du Louvre, 1928-1937, and Academie Ranson, 1925-1931. Pupil Henri Focillon and Bissiere.
Career
; 1 son, Richard Barclay. Came to the United States 1939, naturalized, 1943. Researcher, lecturer writer French Press and Information Service and France Forever, New York City, 1940-1946.
Public relations, 1947-1971. Gallery director National Association Women Artists, New York City 1947-1949. Secretary to curator Far Eastern art, Metropolitan Museum Art, 1950-1951.
Gallery director Grand Central Moderns, New York City, specializing in modern American Art, 1952-1968. Associate director A.M. Sachs Gallery, 1968-1971. Free lance interviewer for Archives American Art.
Organized exchange cultural exhbns. sponsored by American and French embassies. Chairman French section American Red Cross, 1947, 48, 49. Team coordinator advanced gift committee French section American Red Cross 1950-1971.
Vice president Friends of A.D.I.R., Inc. (Charity) 1951-1971; art critic for France Amerique, 1953-1971. Aujourd’hui, Art et Architecture, 1960-1968, Queens College, 1960-1961.
Adjunct professor history of art New York University, 1957-1971. Exhibited Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1928-1930, Gallery Barreiro, Paris, 1928.
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Married Edward Sherrill Roberts, September 12, 1934 (divorced 1948).
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