Memorial planned for photographer
He owned and operated the Dunes Art Gallery, from 1969 to 1974 in Grand Haven, and then on Oceana Drive just outside Pentwater until 1985, where he lived at his gallery. He also opened a gallery in Whitehall in 1988.
Roberts’ galleries handled work by artists from West Michigan and other Midwest states. In addition to paintings and photography, his galleries also featured fiber art and driftwood.
Roberts’ own black and white photographs captured nature’s beauty with a powerful simplicity. One of his favorites was a photograph taken in 1970 called “Anatomy of Winter,” a scene of snow and sand.
It was exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Muskegon Museum of Art, which then was called Hackley Art Gallery.
Roberts always maintained that: “You don’t have to go to Chicago or Detroit for good art.
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