About the artist:

Dillon was both a printmaker and painter. A short faded newsprint bio on the back of the program mentioned that she was: “Born in Philadelphia (1907). Studied at the Phila. Museum School, Pa. Academy of Fine Arts, Barnes Foundation and Europe. Printmaking with artist Earl Horter and Print Club Workshop. In permanent collections of Phila. museum, Atwater Kent Museum. Morris Award PAFA. Exhibited through the U.S. and Canada.” She studied at those various art schools in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Horter was a well-known artist, printmaker and collector at the time. A notation on the back also showed that she exhibited at the Print Club, the Art Alliance and the Allen Lane Art Center, all in Philadelphia. She was a member of the American Color Print Society, of which she was vice president in 1967, as mentioned in a newspaper article about an exhibit she participated in. She had been vice president since 1955. She also exhibited at the Woodmere in 1946, and received the Harrison Morris Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1953, the George Lear Memorial Prize from Woodmere in 1958 and the Klein Prize from the Philadelphia Print Club in 1967. From 1958-1970, Dillon was in charge of the Rittenhouse Square Clothesline Show, held annually in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia since 1932. Renamed the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual in 1976, it is the granddaddy of outdoor art shows in the country. It was founded by students who had studied under Horter. Dillon died in 1992 at age 85.