John R. Winslow ’60

The class lost one of our most imaginative and productive classmates when artist and architect John died Sept. 1, 2024, of kidney failure at his loft/studio home in Washington, D.C.

He grew up in Georgetown and spent his summers in Center Sandwich, N.H. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, where he was a varsity athlete in swimming and track and set records in high hurdles competition. He was also a lifelong tennis enthusiast.

At Princeton, John continued track and swimming for a time and majored in architecture. He roomed with Dale Bell and John Wharton. Three keen artists: For practice and entertainment they drew portraits of each other. John later earned a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in painting at Yale School of Art in 1963. He was an architectural renderer for the New Haven Redevelopment Agency from 1962 to 1969. He then returned to D.C. to a joint appointment in art and architecture at Catholic University, where he worked for 32 years. As a New Realist in the 1960s and ’70s, John worked to synthesize realism and abstraction, often drawing on his own personal history.

John is survived by his wife, Rosemary; four children from his first marriage; and his sister, Mary. Our sympathies to all the family.