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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William Strang

William Strang