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J. Kim Sessums

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

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 Johnny 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 sculpted 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

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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]

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References

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  1. ^ http://health.usnews.com/doctors/joey-sessums-514786 [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Personal website of Dr. Kim Sessums". Retrieved 2008-04-24.
  3. ^ a b c d "Mississippi Legislature — First Extraordinary Session 2004" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  4. ^ "Vaught Statue Arrives, Set For Dedication Saturday Morning". Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  5. ^ "Wyeth's Black Models". Archived from the original on 2008-11-16. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  6. ^ J. Kim Sessums - A Portrait of Andrew Wyeth. Accessed 27 January 2009.
  7. ^ "NPS Vicksburg Campaign brochure" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  8. ^ "Cellular South Outstanding Player Awards". Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  9. ^ "Kim Sessums - King's Daughters Medical Center". KDMC.
  10. ^ "J. Kim Sessums, Doctor of Arts". UMC. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
  11. ^ "New York City: A Southern Family Visits". Travel and Leisure.