Alice Goss Dillon,(1889-1966)
Mother of Ananda Bricker & Barrie Riday.
Grandmother of Cherrie Bricker Stege and Beth Bricker.

Born in Peoria Illnois in 1887. She attended Bradley University and graduated from the Chicago Art Institute in 1909 where she met artist, Frank Dillon. They were married in 1911.

Alice was a successful commercial artist. Her detailed, imaginative watercolors were featured regularly in St. Nicholas, a children’s magazine. She used her husband’s name as well as her own to facilitate selling in what was then a man’s field.

Alice Dillon gave up painting entirely after the birth of her first child, giving over completely to being a wife and mother; however she left a legacy of artist’s spirit in the lives of her family.