# Leslie Darrell Ragan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leslie-darrell-ragan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:57:51.977Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Prints and works on paper, Color poster (documented example), Paintings

## About Leslie Darrell Ragan

Leslie Darrell Ragan (1897–1972) was an American artist whose public authority records appear under both his full name and Leslie Ragan. The material collected for this profile is strongest on identity and on a documented example of his graphic work, rather than on a full biography or movement affiliation. A public-domain color poster made for the New York Central System depicts the upper bay from lower Manhattan. This places urban imagery and transportation-related promotion among the evidenced contexts for his work. Collectors may encounter Ragan through prints and posters, works on paper, paintings, and objects catalogued under broader fine-art or edition categories. Because auction records can group media unevenly, the name, signature, medium, date, dimensions, subject, and provenance of an individual object should be checked against close examples. This page therefore treats Ragan as an American artist with a documented graphic and urban-view context, without assigning an unsupported school or movement.

## Common works and media

The source pack documents a color New York Central System poster showing the upper bay from lower Manhattan. Appraisily's auction taxonomy also places matched records in works on paper and prints, paintings, mixed-media or sculptural categories, and decorative art or editions. Those broader labels should be verified against the medium, dimensions, inscriptions, edition information, and imagery of the individual object rather than treated as a definitive catalogue of Ragan's output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public auction data places works under Leslie Darrell Ragan and Leslie Ragan in categories that include fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These headings are broad, so a useful appraisal starts with the closest comparable objects rather than an artist-wide average. Relevant checks include medium, dimensions, date, career period, condition and restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition details, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject, and recent comparable sales. Reported prices may differ in their treatment of buyer premiums and fees. Public results also omit some private sales and may not reflect later attribution changes, so they are evidence for appraisal, not a price forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, attribution changes, and differences in reported fees may limit the record.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53765837/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43135592
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98063326
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leslie-darrell-ragan/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_;_the_upper_bay_from_lower_Manhattan._New_York_Central_System_-_Leslie_Ragan._LCCN94507605.jpg