Walter Burridge


Walter Wilcox Burridge was a painter in the United States. He did theater set work and established his own studio. Burridge did work on a cyclorama of Kilauea at the Volcano House. He also did many scene paintings for theatrical productions. In his obituary, the Brooklyn Eagle called him one of the foremost scene painters of his time.
Burridge painted the principal curtain at the McVickers Theater: Chicago in 1833. He was in Albuquerque, New Mexico to work on the Panama Exposition when he died of heart disease in 1913.
Burridge was from Brooklyn and his father Henry was the proprietor of the Old Masons Arms Inn there.

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