Alice B. Chilton
was born in Oklahoma and raised on a West Texas ranch near Amarillo.
She won a gold medal there when she entered as an amateur art
contest and was accidentally placed in the professional class and
won the competition. She studied music in Fort Worth before moving
to San Antonio where she met and studied with Robert Wood in the
1920’s and was to become his romantic interest. After he jilted her for
another woman she married a prominent San Antonio singer and
musician. She was exhibiting at the Witte Memorial Museum as early
as 1930. She won first prizes at the Texas State fair and in other
regional exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition in San Antonio was
in 1932, many more were to follow. She was a member of the Texas
Fine Arts Association, Southern National Academy and The Coppini
Academy of Fine Arts. She excelled as a landscape and still life
artist. She died in San Antonio in 1973.