Living New Deal · August 24, 2026
Federal Art Project murals that showed Alice touring 1930s New York were painted for a children’s tuberculosis ward at Gouverneur Hospital, rescued when the hospital closed, and restored for an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. The piece traces the immigrant artist, the restorers and the murals’ return to Gouverneur.
From Abram August Champanier’s “Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York,” 1938–40. (Courtesy, NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine Collection)