George Laakso, Sculptor, Born 1918 lived and created Artworks in Virginia Beach from 1962-till his death in 1981. During that time this dynamic individual built and ran, with his wife Ruth, the Studio-Gallery, the largest gallery, south of Washington, D.C., peppered the Hampton Roads Landscape with his inventive sculptures and left a collection of mostly one-of-a-kind cast and carved sculptures.
His outpouring was prolific; cut short by an inevitable heart attack which would have been averted if the finances were in place for an operation.
Laakso's dream in later life and as his legacy to his beloved Finland and to the Sculptor's Art was to be his work on the Kalevala, the mythology of the Finn's.
Bill Osmundsen