NYC’s miraculously saved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ hospital mural goes on public display for first time

Source: New York Post

A stunning New Deal-era mural of “Alice in Wonderland” characters that was dramatically rescued from a shuttered Manhattan hospital is now on public display for the first time. The whimsical, sweeping panel series, dubbed “Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York,” was created between 1938 and 1940 by New York artist Abram Champanier as part of a federally funded WPA project for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, where many young patients were being treated for tuberculosis on the Lower East Side. 4 Stunning panels from a historic hospital mural on the Lower East Side are now on public display at the City Museum of New York.