?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LESLIE RAGAN (1897-1972)
SEE AMERICA / RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES CANADA & MEXICO. 1939.
39 1/4x25 inches, 99 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+: small replaced losses, repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired pin holes around edges; unobtrusive ink marks in margins.
The visual splendors of North America (human, structural and natural), displayed in collage-like fashion against an impressive backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. A North American cross-promotional campaign sponsored by American, Mexican and Canadian railroad companies, "urging visitors to use America's railroads to attend both the New York and San Francisco Fairs" (World's Fair p. 218). Pictured, aside from the three central figures, are a streamlined train, a steel mill in the heart of industrial America, a building in the Rockefeller Center complex in Manhattan, a California Mission and Quebec City's Chateau Frontenac. World of Tomorrow p. 218, Zega 153.
