{"id":12992,"date":"2026-06-07T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:53:58","slug":"nycs-alice-in-wonderland-hospital-mural-goes-on-public-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12992","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s \u2018Alice in Wonderland\u2019 hospital mural goes on public display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || 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\/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A stunning New Deal-era mural of \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d characters that was dramatically rescued from a shuttered Manhattan hospital is now on public display for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The whimsical, sweeping panel series, dubbed \u201cAlice of Wonderland Visiting New York,\u201d was created between 1938 and 1940 by New York artist Abram Champanier as part of a federally funded WPA project for the children\u2019s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, where many young patients were being treated for tuberculosis on the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Stunning panels from a historic hospital mural on the Lower East Side are now on public display at the City Museum of New York. <span class=\"credit\">Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then just before the aged hospital\u2019s interior was gutted in 1981, the historic panels were saved and restored by conservators and volunteers \u2014 a monumental effort that was nothing short of a miracle, art experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Now all 16 precious panels, including two recreated from destroyed sections, are on public display for the first time in an exhibit titled \u201cAnother Wonderland: Abram Campanier\u2019s Alice Mural,\u201d which opened June 6 at the Museum of the City of New York on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very important piece to be shown because this mural is the only remaining federal art project mural that was created for a children\u2019s hospital ward during the New Deal: It was very nearly lost,\u201d exhibition curator Lily Tuttle told The Post.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The mural collection was rescued in the final days before the demolition of the old Gouverneur Hospital in Manhattan in 1981. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Big Apple-infused masterpiece depicts Alice and friends on adventures such as flying over the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty, exploring Coney Island and the Central Park Zoo and riding a No. 4 train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a kid living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this really would have felt like a fantasy land,\u201d Tuttle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a very modern vision of New York: The Empire State Building was still less than 10 years old, the fact that they\u2019re flying in airplanes, the [ocean liner the SS] Normandie was quite a celebrity at the time,\u201d she said, referring to some of the structures depicted in the murals.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>This panel depicts \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d characters in a classic New York moment \u2014 boarding a crowded subway train. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The murals also represent a historic early example of art therapy, according to reps from NYC Health + Hospitals\u2019 Arts in Medicine program \u2014 with their colorful, familiar depictions offering a much-needed respite to isolated children in an era before video games or television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an artwork goes into hospitals, it\u2019s really important that there\u2019s some cultural relevancy, that there\u2019s imagery that reflects your community,\u201d said Larissa Trinder, assistant vice president of NYC Health + Hospitals\u2019 Arts in Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [work] is especially interesting because you have Alice in Wonderland of Lewis Carroll\u2019s story, which was incredibly prolific at that time for children \u2026 juxtaposed or placed in an environment where they could see their own backyard.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The murals are among nearly 8,000 works in NYC Health + Hospitals\u2019 collection alongside commissions from the likes of Keith Haring and Mickalene Thomas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Another part of the mural captures the characters outside the famed New York Public Library off Bryant Park in Midtown. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Conservators spent nearly four decades carefully restoring each of the paintings to their vibrant glory by using black-and-white photos as references, as well as meticulous study of some of the more preserved panels\u2019 use of color and motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were very damaged,\u201d said John Lippert, one of the paintings\u2019 conservators, of some of the works. \u201cThere were areas of lettering that were missing that we had to figure out by looking through historic photos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, identifying a single missing word \u2014 \u201cMarlin\u201d \u2014 on a mural of the characters attempting to board a crowded No. 4 train took three months alone, he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s detective work,\u201d Lippert said.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit also offers an important glimpse into the earlier works of Champanier \u2014 a Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland who arrived at Ellis Island in 1905 and would go on to create other notable works for the WPA \u2014 the New Deal program that brought art to public buildings during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>After the exhibition\u2019s closure in September, the mural series will be reinstalled at NYC Health + Hospitals\/Gouverneur, which opened four blocks from the former site in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to be on two different floors that kind of speak to one another, so you can see them all,\u201d Trinder said of the panels, adding that the display will be exposed to the street through glass windows so that the public can relish the art as 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