Background
Brigham was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Marion B. and William Theodore Brigham, who owned the Swift Meat Packing Company of Baltimore and the Greenport Shipbuilding Company of Shelter Island, New New York
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Walter Brigham
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In 1888 he graduated from high school and entered Johns Hopkins University, but became ill in 1892 and did not complete his degree.
Career
As a child, he live at 406 Pressman Street in Baltimore. He also studied at the Decorative and Maryland Institute Schools, received art training from André Castaigne, and later studied with William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) at the Art Students League. On December 8, 1892, the World"s Fair Commission chose his design for the Maryland Meda
In 1906 he completed a stained glass window in memory of Brooklyn banker Frederick A. Schroeder in the Union Chapel in the Grove on Shelter Island, and in 1909 he created a similar design for actor William Gillette"s houseboat.
By 1926 he had begun to illustrate magazines, including Ginger, Pep, and Hot Stuff, and in 1928 his work began to appear in pulp magazines, including covers for Clues Detective Stories, The Dragnet, Rangeland Love, Popular Engineering Stories, and The Underworld. From 1935-1939 his drawings appeared in comic books produced by Centaur Comics, Harry "A" Chesler, District of Columbia Comics and Dell Publishing.
He died in 1941 at Shelter Harbor.
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Nationality
American