A stunning New Deal-era mural of “Alice in Wonderland” characters that was dramatically rescued from a shuttered Manhattan hospital is now on public display for the first time. The whimsical, sweeping panel series, dubbed “Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York,” was created between 1938 and 1940 by New York artist Abram Champanier as part of a federally funded WPA project for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, where many young patients were being treated for tuberculosis on the Lower