Alice’s Murals Reunited: A WPA-Era Wonderland Preserved in New York

The 16-panel Alice Mural (1938–40) by Abram Champanier, created for Gouverneur Hospital’s pediatric ward as a WPA project, has been fully reassembled after decades of partial restorations and a dramatic 1981 rescue. It is now exhibited in Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural at the Museum of the City of New York (June 6–Sept 20), with two lost panels recreated, before a long-term relocation to NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur, highlighting art’s healing role in public hospitals and ongoing philanthropic support.