Jan D'Esopo (born c. 1934 in New York City) is a painter and sculptor, mainly active in Puerto Rico.
Jan (born "Janet") was born in New York City. Her father Joe, a second generation Italian, was a doctor and a teacher at Yale University her mother Marion was a psychiatric nurse of Scottish background. The family later moved to Hartford, Connecticut where Jan received their primary and secondary education. In 1943, at the age of nine, Jan won var...
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Jan D'Esopo (born c. 1934 in New York City) is a painter and sculptor, mainly active in Puerto Rico.
Jan (born "Janet") was born in New York City. Her father Joe, a second generation Italian, was a doctor and a teacher at Yale University her mother Marion was a psychiatric nurse of Scottish background. The family later moved to Hartford, Connecticut where Jan received their primary and secondary education. In 1943, at the age of nine, Jan won various awards in painting at an exhibition held at the Wadsworth Athenaeum. D'Esopo spent some summer vacations in Puerto Rico, where her uncle used to work for Puerto Rican governor Luis Muñoz Marín.
In 1956, she enrolled and attended Bennington College in Vermont. She graduated with majors in painting and sculpture. She also studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts.
In 1961, D'Esopo and her husband purchased an eighteenth century Spanish colonial house located on Norzagaray Street in Old San Juan. The couple restored the house, which is now...
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