Virginia Lee Burton
Author
1909 – 1968
Who was Virginia Lee Burton?
Virginia Lee Burton, 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, which won the Caldecott Medal She also illustrated six books by other authors.
Burton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1909
Newton Centre - Also known as
- Virginia Burton
- Virginia Demetrios
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 15, 1968
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on July 23, 2013
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