Douglas Strachan

East window at Humbie Parish Church, East Lothian, designed by Douglas Strachan in 1949

Grave of Douglas Strachan, Dean Cemetery

Dr. (Robert) Douglas Strachan (26 May 1875, Aberdeen -1950) was considered the most significant Scottish designer of stained glass windows in the 20th Century. Schooled at Robert Gordon's, he studied art at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, at the Life School of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy in London. From 1895-1897 Strachan worked in Manchester as a black and white artist on several newspapers, and as a political cartoonist for the Manchester Evening Chronicle, until ill-health forced him to return to Aberdeen.

He died at Lasswade, Midlothian and is buried in the central section of the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

Works

Although Strachan was interested in Futurism, Cubism, and Vorticism, his work shows little influence of this. Strachan often composed his windows in areas of pure colour which were then defined by areas of silvery white.

His largest commission was to design the windows for the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle in the late 1920s.

Strachan's work can also be seen at:

St. Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland
St Andrew's United Reformed Church (incl. War Memorial Window - 'Sacrifice'), Hampstead, London
All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
The Peace Palace at The Hague, Netherlands
Humbie Parish Church, East Lothian
King's College Chapel, Aberdeen
Noble College, University of Aberdeen
St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen
St Lawrence's Church, East Rounton, North Yorkshire (memorial window to Gertrude Bell^[1]
Fraserburgh Old Parish Church (1906)
East window (St Andrew) in the Thistle Chapel, St Giles Cathedral (1909-11)
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney (1912)
Nairn Old Parish Church, Nairn
St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle (1922)
Bedrule Church (1922)
Christ Walking on the Water, St Giles Cathedral (1922)
St Giles Cathedral, saint windows (1932-35)
Westminster College, Cambridge
Bothwell Parish Church, South Lanarkshire, Gilchrist Window, for Dr. Marion Gilchrist
St. Margaret's Church, Hoathly, Sussex
St. Thomas' Church, Winchelsea, East Sussex
St Michael and All Angels, Waterford, Hertfordshire
Paisley Abbey
St John's Kirk, Perth, Scotland
University of Glasgow Chapel
University of Glasgow Bute Hall
Kilbrandon Church, Argyll
St Mary of the Angels, Brownshill, Gloucestershire.
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Kelso

References

Arthur Colin Russell, Stained Glass Windows of Douglas Strachan

↑ pictures of Gertrude Bell windows

British and Irish stained glass

British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)

History

Influences

Artistic movements	Aesthetic Movement Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Biblia pauperum Cambridge Camden Society Classicism Early Renaissance Exoticism Gothic Revival Oxford Movement Romanticism

Organisations	The Glass House Hogarth Club Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

People

Architectural	John Loughborough Pearson Augustus Pugin George Gilbert Scott Alexander Thomson

Artists	Edward Liddall Armitage Hugh Arnold Alfred E. Child Margaret Chilton Harry Clarke Walter Francis Clokey Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Trena Cox Louis Davis works Rachel de Montmorency Alfred Drury Mabel Esplin Moira Forsyth Wilhelmina Geddes Jane Gray Reginald Hallward works Herbert Hendrie James Humphries Hogan Evie Hone Joan Howson works Marjorie Kemp Charles Eamer Kempe Mary Lowndes William Morris Catherine Amelia O’Brien Karl Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz Francis Skeat works Caroline Townshend works Christopher Webb Christopher Whall works Veronica Whall works Thomas Willement William Wilson Paul Woodroffe works Edward Woore works British stained-glass artists Irish stained-glass artists

Critics	John Ruskin

Manufacturers	An Túr Gloine Burlison and Grylls Harry Clarke Clayton and Bell Walter Francis Clokey Daniel Cottier John Hardman & Co. Heaton, Butler and Bayne Hincks and Burnell Lavers, Barraud and Westlake Morris & Co. James Powell and Sons Shrigley and Hunt William Wailes William Warrington

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Terminology

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