Newcomb Archives
Lesser, May Hyman
95-022
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Newcomb Archives
- Creator - Associated name
- Lesser, May Hyman
- Title
- Lesser, May Hyman
- ID
- 95-022
- Date [inclusive]
- 1980-1996
- Extent
- 1.0 Cubic feet 1 box
- Language
- English
Biographical/Historical note
May H. Lesser, the daughter, sister, wife, and mother of physicians, graduated from Newcomb College, Tulane University, with honors in drawing. She studied anthropology at Columbia University and child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University. She received a master’s degree in painting from the University of Alabama and did further graduate work at UCLA. She was granted the Tiffany Graphics Art Award and taught printmaking at the U.C. Irvine. As an artist, she had the rare experience of being on the inside of medical centers of UCLA, University of Southern California, and Tulane University.
Lesser spent the last three decades of her life immersing herself in the field of medicine and creating a body of artwork chronicling the study and practice of medicine. In her works, Lesser has interwoven the human side of medical education with the clinical environment of medicine. Her work has been exhibited at UCLA, U.C. Irvine, Tulane University, LSU, University of Miami, University of Southern California, Case Western Reserve University, The Seattle Museum of Art, California State College at Long Beach, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pittsburgh, the National Academy of Design, the George Washington University, the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Library of Medicine. Her etchings and drawings are in the permanent collection of the Weatherspoon Gallery, the University of North Carolina, the Oklahoma Art Center, the ARS Medica Graphic Art Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Grunwald Graphic Art Foundation at UCLA, the Darling Biomed Library of UCLA, the Calder Medical Library of the University of Southern California, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the National Library of Medicine. She published two books, "The Art of Learning Medicine" and "An Artist in the University Medical Center." Her works have appeared on eleven covers of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Scope and Contents note
An array of color sketches, prints, articles, exhibit catalogs, and a manuscript produced by May Lesser, along with correspondence and journal articles associated with her productions.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Newcomb Archives
Newcomb Center for Research on WomenSeltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu
Collection Inventory
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Box 1 of 1 General note1. Correspondence and Sketches (1 of 11) 2. Holiday Card 1996 (2 of 11) 3. General Clinical Research Center Brochure, 1996 (3 of 11) 4. Correspondence, NCCROW (4 of 11) 5. Openings and Exhibits (5 of 11) 6. “The Human Face of Medicinal Science” (6 of 11) 7. Journal articles and features (7 of 11) 8. Tulane Medicine (8 of 11) 9. Fetzer Institute: The Institute Report (9 of 11) 10. The Sciences (10 of 11) 11. Radiology Centennial Imaging Contest Article (11 of 11) |
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