LESLIE RAGAN (1897-1972) RCA BUILDING, ROCKEFELLER CENTER. Calendar. 1936.
15 3/4x9 1/4 inches, 40x23 1/2 cm. Leo H. Fuller, Inc., New York.
Condition B+: reattached upper left corner, affecting text; creases and abrasions at edges; archival tape on verso; image flips up to reveal text; string at top for hanging. Silkscreen. Printed on thick card.
Around 1936, Ragan designed a poster for the New York Central Lines featuring Rockefeller Center. Most likely capitalizing on the success of that image, Leo Fuller, an advertiser, used an image by Ragan of the same subject for a promotional calendar. rare. We could find no previous record of the image.