[3][1] As a student of the Technical College, he joined an exhibition of their work in November 1944 at the Melbourne Athenaeum, amongst other service personnel; George Allen, Ray Ewers, Stanley Hammond, William Dargle, Murray Griffin, Reginald Rowed, K. W, D. Jack, Wilfred McCulloch, Alan Moore, and Harold Freedman.
[3] The Argus in an article titled 'Problem in Art Awards' framed his win as a triumph for those favouring modernism over the favourite of the traditional faction, Judy Perrey.
[11] Hansen writes of Second Class that while other artists were "representing white-collar workers as cocky and absurd automata, Douglas Green produced a more sympathetic vision of their tedious, fatiguing existence.
[14] From his residence at 21 Roland Gardens South Kensington, and with his wife Helen, they returned to Melbourne in January 1952 aboard the Strathmore,[15] Green worked first as a graphic designer, then as an art teacher with the Victorian Education Department.
[16] His work was seen in The Face of Australia, touring exhibition, 1988,[12] and Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1992[8] Late in his career, in the 1990s, Green lived in Castlemaine where he made coloured drawings of dead mistletoe.