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:
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
Of creatures going about their business among the equally
Earnest elements of nature.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)