William Strang
William Strang ( born February 13, 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, † April 12, 1921 in Bournemouth, England) was a Scottish painter and graphic artist who also created book illustrations. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers and the Royal Academy in London.
Life and work
William Strang studied after a brief apprenticeship with a shipbuilding company in the Scottish town Clydesdale 1876-1880 Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, his teacher was, among others, Alphonse Legros. After studying train for a year was Legros ' assistant in the class for printmaking. He then worked for the next 20 years, primarily as an etcher. His subjects were landscapes in the tradition of Rembrandt, biblical and macabre themes, as well as 150 portraits of leading artistic and literary people such as Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson. Examples are the etchings Death of the Ploughman 's Wife ( 1888), The Socialists (1891 ) and the painting The Temptation (1899 ).
His commitment to realism and psychology sat in the paintings that dominated the second half of his career, continues. The influence of the French and Belgian Symbolists characterize his mature style with its linear clarity and colors, an example is Bank Holiday in 1912, exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London. Especially famous was Vita Sackville- West's portrait as Lady with a Red Hat from 1918. Vita Sackville-West was a friend of the writer Virginia Woolf.
Hank had five children. His sons Ian strand (1886-1952) and David Strand (1887-1967) was also a graphic artist. David strand gave out the 1962 catalog raisonné of the Printed Work of William Strang.
Memberships of strand: Royal Society of Painter - Printmakers in 1881, Art Workers Guild in 1895, Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1896, Society of Twelve in 1904; elected Associate Royal Academician (ARA ) of the Royal Academy in 1906 as an eraser, a full member (RA ) in 1921; President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1918.
Strand was with his Scottish fellow artists, the erasers David Young Cameron, Muirhead Bone and James McBey under the name "The Big Four" ( " The Big Four " ) known
Strand paintings and graphics are represented, among others, in London's Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Louvre in Paris. More than 2000 works, including a large collection of strand graphic work from the years 1879 to 1920 are exhibited in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
Portrait of Rudyard Kipling, 1898, British Museum, London
The Japanese Fan, 1910
Illustrations
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Nathan The Wise, with etchings by William Strang. J. Maclehose, Glasgow 1894
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by William Strang and JB Clark. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1895
- Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, illustrated by William Strang and JB Clark. Lawrence & Bullen, London 1896 ( published online by the University of Florida Digital Collections )
- Illustrations for art and literary magazines The Yellow Book and The Dome