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1896 Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece - 1974. Known for: Sculpture-figure.
Demetrios was born in Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece, and came to the United States at the age of 15 making his living as a shoeshine boy at a Boston hotel. Two years later he entered the Boston Museum... Read full biography
Demetrios was born in Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece, and came to the United States at the age of 15 making his living as a shoeshine boy at a Boston hotel. Two years later he entered the Boston Museum School following which he spent four years studying under sculptor Charles Grafley (1862–1929) at the... Read full biography
Demetrios was born in Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece, and came to the United States at the age of 15 making his living as a shoeshine boy at a Boston hotel. Two years later he entered the Boston Museum School following which he spent four years studying under sculptor Charles Grafley (1862–1929) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A scholarship awarded there allowed Demetrios to complete his studies in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the Sorbonne where he was a student of Antoine... Read full biography
Demetrios was born in Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece, and came to the United States at the age of 15 making his living as a shoeshine boy at a Boston hotel. Two years later he entered the Boston Museum School following which he spent four years studying under sculptor Charles Grafley (1862–1929) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A scholarship awarded there allowed Demetrios to complete his studies in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the Sorbonne where he was a student of Antoine Bourdelle and Auguste Rodin. By 1927, he had begun his own teaching career, opening The George Demetrios School of Drawing and Sculpture in Boston. In 1931, George Demetrios, like Grafly's other two famous students, Walter Hancock and Paul Manship, moved... Read full biography
Demetrios was born in Pyrgoi, Macedonia, Greece, and came to the United States at the age of 15 making his living as a shoeshine boy at a Boston hotel. Two years later he entered the Boston Museum School following which he spent four years studying under sculptor Charles Grafley (1862–1929) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A scholarship awarded there allowed Demetrios to complete his studies in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the Sorbonne where he was a student of Antoine Bourdelle and Auguste Rodin. By 1927, he had begun his own teaching career, opening The George Demetrios School of Drawing and Sculpture in Boston. In 1931, George Demetrios, like Grafly's other two famous students, Walter Hancock and Paul Manship, moved to the Lanesville section of Gloucester and married children books author and illustrator, Virginia Lee Burton who won the distinguished C... Read full biography
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