Walter Burridge | |
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Born | Walter Wilcox Burridge 1857 Brooklyn, New York |
Died | (aged 56) Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Burial place | Forest Home Cemetery |
Occupation | Painter |
Walter Wilcox Burridge (1857 – June 25, 1913) was a painter in the United States. He did theater set work and established his own studio.[1] Burridge did work on a cyclorama of Kilauea at the Volcano House.[2] He also did many scene paintings for theatrical productions.[3] In his obituary, the Brooklyn Eagle called him one of the foremost scene painters of his time.[4]
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.[4] He was buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.
Burridge was from Brooklyn and his father Henry was the proprietor of the Old Masons Arms Inn there.[4]