Details from the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition, Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural, will be displayed in art panels on the Oculus floor beginning May 22 through June 19. 

About the exhibition

Presented in collaboration with New York City Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Another Wonderland brings to light a remarkable example of New Deal-era public art, Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York, a mural cycle created by Abram Champanier for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital between 1938 and 1940. Commissioned through the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Art Project, Champanier reimagined Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland in 1930s New York City. The result was a sixteen-panel mural—each panel over seven feet tall—blending fantasy and city life to uplift young patients and hospital staff, and adding color, movement, and magic into a space dedicated to healing.  

Learn more about the exhibition here.