David Strang

David Strang (14 July 1887 – 9 January 1967) was a British artist and printer, mainly of etchings and drypoints published in limited editions, for many well-known artists in the UK and USA in the 1920s and 1930s. Early life David Rogerson Strang was born on 14 July 1887 in Dumbarton, Scotland to William and Agnes Strang, born Agnes McSymon Rogerson. His father, William Strang RA, was an eminent artist and his elder brother, Ian Strang RE, was a draughtsman and etcher. He had two other brothers, Peter Denny Strang and Roy Burch Strang, and a sister, Agnes Nancy McSymon Strang. David Strang studied at the University of Glasgow. During World War I he served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. Work David Strang's skills as a printer of designs by artists etched or engraved onto zinc or copper plates were in great demand at the end of the etching revival in the 1920s. He printed the plates of etchers such as Edmund Blampied, John Taylor Arms, Robert Austin, Orovida Camille Pissarro and Frederick Clifford Dixon, examples of which are in the British Museum, many of which he donated. He often used laid printing paper with his own watermark, ‘DAVID STRANG’. David Strang printed much of his father's intaglio work and presented over 1,300 items by William Strang to Glasgow Museums between 1955 and 1962.