David Edgar Strachan (25 June 1919 – 23 November 1970) was an Australian painter, printmaker and teacher.
[1] He moved to London in 1936 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe for two years.
[2] In 1937 he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris and worked as a printmaker.
[2][3] Strachan moved to Sydney in 1941, and exhibited with many other prominent artists of the Contemporary Art Group.
[2][7] Strachan died on 23 November 1970 from a motorcar accident near Yass, New South Wales.