Virginia Lee Burton

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Virginia Lee Burton (born August 30, 1909 , † October 15, 1968 ), also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios , was an American illustrator and children's book author . She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including The Little House (1943) which won the Caldecott Medal . She also illustrated six books for other authors.

Burton founded the textile collective Folly Cove Designers in Cape Ann , Massachusetts , which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of the works of the members of the collective are now in the collections of the Boston Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts , the Cape Ann Museum, and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Life

Burton was born in Newton Center, Massachusetts. As a child she was always called "Jinnee". Her mother was Lena Yates , a poet and artist from England whose poems were first published when she was just 20 years old. Virginia's father, Alfred E. Burton, married her mother after he was widowed with two sons. He was the first dean of student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Virginia Burton had an older sister, Christine, and a younger brother, Alexander Ross Burton. She also had two stepbrothers - Harold Hitz Burton and Felix Arnold Burton, from her father's previous marriage.

When Virginia was about eight years old, her family moved to San Diego, California on the grounds that the New England winter months were tough on her mother's health. Her parents divorced in 1925 and her father returned to Boston .

After attending several local schools, Burton received a state scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco , where she studied both arts and dance . During her studies she lived in Alameda, on the other side of the bay, and used the long journey by train, ferry and cable car to "make quick sketches of the life and memory of my unsuspecting fellow travelers".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Virginia Lee Burton | American author. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wendy Killeen: Seuss on the loose . In: Boston.com . ( boston.com [accessed November 25, 2019]).
  3. ^ Virginia Lee Burton. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Barbara Elleman: Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002, ISBN 978-0-618-00342-6 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Mulligan. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Biography of Virginia Lee Burton - Early Years. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Burton, Virginia Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demetrios, Virginia (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1909
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1968