Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the language of Expressionism to immortalize the sweetest and most brutal moments of her own female experience, died on Oct. 18 in Manhattan.
Her death, at Lenox Hill Hospital, was confirmed by her husband and only immediate survivor, Jeremy Lebensohn.
But the most searing single piece might have been her record of the fragmentary details — emotional as well as physical — of an abortion she underwent in the 1960s.
She had been admitted to a hospital for treatment of a tumor when doctors discovered she was pregnant.
She eventually did receive the procedure she needed, at a different hospital — but the experience left marks.
Persons:
Juanita McNeely, Jeremy Lebensohn, McNeely’s
Organizations:
Lenox Hill Hospital
Locations:
Manhattan, Lenox