David Edgar Strachan
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| birth_place = Salisbury, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|11|23|1919|06|25|df=y}}
| death_place = Yass, New South Wales, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| known_for = artist (painter), printmaker, teacher
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David Edgar Strachan (25 June 1919 – 23 November 1970) was an Australian painter, printmaker and teacher.
Strachan was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1919 to a doctor in the Australian Army. In 1920 David and his family moved to Adelaide, later moving to Creswick, Victoria.
He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria.
He moved to London in 1936 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe for two years. In 1937 he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris and worked as a printmaker. He returned to Australia in April 1938 and worked with George Bell in Melbourne for a few years.
Strachan moved to Sydney in 1941, and exhibited with many other prominent artists of the Contemporary Art Group. He again left for Europe in 1948 where he began experimenting in etching in Paris.
In May 1960 Strachan returned to Sydney, continuing to exhibit. He was a member of Sydney Printmakers, and taught etching at East Sydney Technical College (1960–1965). He was the last president of the Society of Artists, serving in 1965.
Strachan held solo and group shows in London and Paris and appeared in the Paris UNESCO Exposition.
He exhibited his prints in numerous Australian galleries between 1961 and 1978.
He won the Wynne Prize in 1961 and 1964.
Strachan died on 23 November 1970 from a motorcar accident near Yass, New South Wales.
His works are held in 15 major galleries in Australia and in many European and American galleries.
Notes and references
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131723915 |title=ONE-MAN ART SHOW AT BIBLE HOUSE. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=18 June 1963 |access-date=29 April 2014 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}
[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/strachan-david-edgar-11786/text21083 Barry Pearce, 'Strachan, David Edgar (1919–1970)'], Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 29 April 2014.
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107898262 |title=Strachan's art. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=ACT |date=16 October 1969 |access-date=29 April 2014 |page=22 }}
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110440310 |title=Deaths. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=ACT |date=25 November 1970 |access-date=29 April 2014 |page=31 }}
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External links
- [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=strachan-david Works by David Strachan] held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- {{Citation | title=David Strachan interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] | author1=Strachan, David, 1919–1970 | author2=De Berg, Hazel, 1913–1984 | year=1961 | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.oh-vn1705648}}
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Category:People from Salisbury
Category:20th-century Australian male artists
Category:Road incident deaths in New South Wales
Category:20th-century Australian printmakers
Category:People educated at Geelong Grammar School
Category:Australian male painters
Category:British emigrants to Australia