Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist.

[2] Bunnell enlisted and served in the United States Army during World War I.

[2] In 1934, Bunnell won a commission from the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) to complete a mural for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs.

[3] Bunnell moved away from American Scene painting and into abstract art.

[4] Marika Herskovic's American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s : an Illustrated Survey (New York School Press, 2003), provides an accounting of this period in Bunnell's stylistic evolution.