William Strang
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 2,000 works by Scottish artist William Strang which date from around 1879 to 1920. Strang was born in Dumbarton on 13 February 1859 and studied at University College, London and later at the Slade School under the direction of Alphonse Legros. As an etcher, Strang displayed great versatility as well as a wide range in respect to subjects. Glasgow Museums collection contains some 1,700 prints by Strang and covers portraits, landscapes, book illustration, genre and social comment. Of these, 50 were bequeathed by Strang himself in 1921, and a further 1,300 presented by his son David Strang between 1955 and 1962. Strang along with fellow Scottish etchers David Young Cameron, Muirhead Bone and James McBey, were known collectively as ‘The Big Four’. In addition to the prints, the collection contains eight oil paintings, one watercolour and almost 270 drawings covering allegorical and religious subjects, and portraits.
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