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Although Jessup occasionally created in other styles this period is predominantly stylized and representational. The paintings tended to be large triptychs roughly 15 feet wide by 6 feet tall. The entire surface of each painting tended to be heavily textured like a choppy sea when viewed up close.
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Jessup was born on July 18, 1952, in Moscow, Idaho, to
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Already an established artist Jessup, then in his mid-fifties, and his wife Faith travelled to Europe for a month in 2008. They travelled to Madrid, Brussels and
Florence but it was the baroque paintings in the Prado in Spain that influenced him the most. He returned “with a desire to be more
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University, Cornell University, the Hartford Art School and the University of North Texas. He is currently the Professor of Drawing and Painting in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
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Cornell. They raised two children, Molly and Christopher. He has one sibling, an older brother, Richard Jessup, a retired lawyer.
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