May Hyman Lesser Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

May Hyman Lesser (1927 – July 24, 2001) was an American artist and medical illustrator.

Lesser died on July 24, 2001 at her home in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lesser had 11 etchings and drawings on covers of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Lesser won the Mary Ellen Lopresti Publication Award of Southeastern Art Librarians Association and Best Art Book of 1990 for “An Artist in the University Medical Center” which was published by Tulane University Press in New Orleans in 1989. She also won the Tiffany Graphics Art Award.

In 1967, Lesser asked if she could observe and draw an anatomy class at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She was intrigued by the shadow and lighting on the cadavers and how the medical students interacted with them. At the end of the anatomy lab after she asked if she could sit in on the final. Dr. Charles Sawyer asked if she would stay with this class until their graduation in 1971. She did, and it is from this time that she published her first book The Art of Learning Medicine in 1974. Lesser continued on with some students from this program, working with them into their internships and residencies at LAC+USC Medical Center. In 1989, Lesser published her second book, An Artist in the University Medical Center after observing residents at the Tulane University Medical Center.