Her parents divorced in 1925, and her father returned to Boston.Īfter attending local schools, Burton won a state scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where she studied both art and dance. Burton and her sister took dance and art lessons, performing in local productions. A year later the family settled 450 miles north in Carmel-by-the-Sea, then a small, artistic community. Her father, close to his retirement in 1921 after 40 years at MIT, took a leave of absence. When Virginia was about 8 years old, her family moved to San Diego, California, as the New England winters were hard on her mother's health. Harold became an attorney, politician and Supreme Court Justice and Arnold an architect. She recounted their boisterous holiday celebrations, and singing, dancing and theatrical productions as children. Virginia had an older sister, Christine, and younger brother, Alexander Ross Burton, in addition to their father's first two sons, Harold Hitz Burton and Felix Arnold Burton. Notably, Burton's father served as the first Dean of Student Affairs for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-1921). They were married in 1906, having met on a walking trip in France.
Burton, married Lena Yates after he had been widowed with two sons. Later, she went by the moniker Jeanne D'Orge. Yates later published children's books under the name Lena Dalkeith.
Her mother was Lena Yates, a lyric poet and artist from England whose poetry was first published at age 20. Virginia Burton was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. 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, the Cape Ann Museum, and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also illustrated six books by other authors.īurton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. Virginia Lee Burton (Aug– October 15, 1968), also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author.
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