Walter Burridge

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Walter Wilcox Burridge (1857–June 25, 1913) was an American painter from Brooklyn who worked in theater design and ran his own studio. He painted many scene paintings for plays and created a cyclorama of Kilauea for the Volcano House. Burridge also painted the main curtain at the McVickers Theater in Chicago. He died of heart disease in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while working on the Panama Exposition project, and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. His father, Henry Burridge, ran the Old Masons Arms Inn in Brooklyn.