Arts
| Alumni | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astin, JohnJohn Astin | 1952† | Actor of The Addams Family and Batman fame | |
| Chapin, FrancisFrancis Chapin | 1921 | Artist known for his work in oil and watercolor; called "Dean of Chicago Painters" | |
| Cowan, FrankFrank Cowan | 1865 !Jefferson 1865† | Author, physician, newspaper publisher, and personal secretary to President Andrew Johnson; best known for constructing a hoax, claiming the discovery of the remains of an Icelandic Christian woman near the Potomac River, proving that America had been "discovered" five centuries before Christopher Columbus | |
| Dallis, Nicholas P.Nicholas P. Dallis | 1933 | Creator of the newspaper comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D.; won the 1933 Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Championship in the 165-pound weight class | |
| Foster, StephenStephen Foster | 1841 !Jefferson 1841† | Famed 19th-century songwriter of American folk classics "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", "Beautiful Dreamer" and "Old Folks at Home", among others; Foster attended Washington & Jefferson but never finished; sources conflict on whether he was expelled or left voluntarily | |
| Kurtz, Charles M.Charles M. Kurtz | 1876 | Art director of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 | |
| Schmucker, Samuel MosheimSamuel Mosheim Schmucker | 1840 !Washington 1840 | American historian and author |
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)