J. Kim Sessums

J. Kim Sessums

Monument to U.S. Colored Troops in the Vicksburg National Military Park.
Born Joey Kim Sessums
Nationality American

Joey Kim Sessums[1] is an American artist and physician, best known for his sculptures. Sessums resides in Brookhaven, Mississippi.[2]

Sessums earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi.[3] The University later installed his six-foot statue of University of Mississippi football coach John Vaught on the campus.[4]

Andrew Wyeth offered to pose for Sessums. When the sculpture was finished, Wyeth remarked,

We've done it. I think we've really got something here. This is why I waited. The other works just didn't have the bite yours does.[5][6]

Sessums sculptures of Wyeth, Eudora Welty and Billy Graham were parts of those individuals' personal collections.[3]

Sessums was honored with a Mississippi Senate resolution in 2004 for his work on the then recently dedicated African-American Monument in the Vicksburg National Military Park, commissioned by the National Park Service.[3][7]

Sessums sculptured the Cellular South Howell Trophy, which is given to the top four-year college men's basketball player in Mississippi. He also sculptured the Cellular South Gillom Trophy, which is given to the top four-year college women's basketball player in Mississippi.[8]

Personal life

Sessums has four children with his wife, Kristy.[9] His daughter, also named Joey Sessums, is a pediatric dentist.[10] Though he is best known as an artist, he maintains his medical practice.[3] His brother is writer Kevin Sessums.[11]

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://health.usnews.com/doctors/joey-sessums-514786
  2. ↑ "Personal website of Dr. Kim Sessums". Retrieved 2008-04-24.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Mississippi Legislature — First Extraordinary Session 2004" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  4. ↑ "Vaught Statue Arrives, Set For Dedication Saturday Morning". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  5. ↑ "Wyeth's Black Models". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  6. ↑ J. Kim Sessums - A Portrait of Andew Wyeth. Accessed 27 January 2009.
  7. ↑ "NPS Vicksburg Campaign brochure" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  8. ↑ "Cellular South Outstanding Player Awards". Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  9. ↑ http://www.kdmc.org/index.cfm/find-a-provider/find-a-physician/physicians-index/kim-sessums/
  10. ↑ http://www.umc.edu/News_and_Publications/Alumni_Publication/2014-01-15-00_J__Kim_Sessums,_Doctor_of_Arts.aspx
  11. ↑ http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/new-york-city-a-southern-family-visits
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