At age twenty-one, she enrolled in a sculpture and drawing class at Boston Museum School, and married her teacher the next spring.īurton wrote and illustrated seven books for children, published between 19, and illustrated several others. When her father broke a leg, Burton forfeited a contract with a traveling ballet company, and remained in the Boston area to care for him. After a year of studying art and ballet in San Francisco, she returned to the Boston area in 1928. She received one of three state scholarships to the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco as a junior in high school. and Lena Dalkeith Yates Burton married George Demetrios, 1931ĭaughter of an English poetess and musician, Lena Dalkeith, and the first dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Virginia Burton lived in Newton Center until she was eight years old, when her family moved to California.
Born 30 August 1909, Newton Center, Massachusetts died 15 October 1968, Boston, Massachusettsĭaughter of Alfred E.
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