![]() ![]() On August 30, 1936, they had their second son, Michael Burton Demetrios.īurton started writing children’s books as a way to entertain her sons. The family settled in Folly Cove, Gloucester, Massachusetts. They had their first son named Aristides Burton Demetrios on February 17, 1932. She enrolled in a drawing class at the Boston Museum School in 1930 and married her professor, George Demetrios, less than a year later, on March 28, 1931. In Boston, Virginia Lee Burton landed a position as a “sketcher” for the Boston Transcript, where she completed sketches of dancers and actors to accompany articles written by the drama and music critic. ![]() Burton’s father broke his leg, and she decided to move back to Massachusetts to take care of him. She hoped to become a dancer and had just signed a contract to be in her sister’s travelling dance troupe when, in 1928, her ballet career ended. Following high school, Burton studied dance in San Francisco. ![]() Her parents, Alfred Burton, an engineer, and Dalkeith Yates, a poet and artist, moved the family to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1920. Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on August 20, 1909. Home > Artists > Virginia Lee Burton Virginia Lee Burton Born: Aug| Died: OctoBiography ![]()
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