About this artwork
In Britain the earliest exhibition dedicated to the First World War was held in late 1914 at the New English Art Club in London. In January 1915 Strang held an exhibition of war pictures at London’s Leicester Galleries, in which he confronted the more devastating intimate aspects of war. Beyond the age of conscription himself, but with all four sons on the Front, Strang’s work during the First World War frequently featured the psychological effects of war and its impact on everyday life on the Home Front. In late 1916 the British Propaganda Bureau commenced the Official War Artists scheme in which fifty-one artists, including Strang’s close associate Muirhead Bone, were appointed to depict battle conditions first-hand.
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artist:William Strang (1859 - 1921) Scottish
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title:The Convalescent
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date created:1915
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materials:Engraving and drypoint on paper
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measurements:Platemark: 37.60 x 30.20 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Strang Gift 1955
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accession number:P 2333.703
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William Strang
William Strang
Born in Dumbarton, William Strang was briefly a clerk in the family shipbuilding firm before he entered the Slade School of Art in London in 1876. At the Slade he was deeply influenced by the teaching of Alphonse Legros, particularly the etching class which Legros instituted in 1877. The subject...