Coney Island Hospital: Alice in Wonderland Mural – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Art Works, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP)

Started:
1938

Completed:
1940

Artist:
Abram Champanier

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

One of the five restored Alice in Wonderland murals painted by Abram Champanier in 1938-40 is hung in the Cumberland Center at 100 N Portland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205.  The mural was originally created for the Gouverneur Hospital children’s ward in lower Manhattan, but was neglected and then restored in the early 1990s.

The mural is listed on the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation art collection website, dated 2006.

The present status of the mural is unknown to us.

A 1994 New York Times article on WPA murals in NYC notes it is in the E.R. of Coney Island Hospital.

Source notes

New York Times, 1994 (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/07/arts/a-guide-to-the-city-s-depression-murals.html),

Site originally submitted by The Living New Deal on June 15, 2016.
Additional contributions by Joanna Molloy.

Location Info


2601 Ocean Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11235
Brooklyn County

Coordinates: 40.5854896, -73.9655811

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