Ray C. Strang (1893 in Sandoval, Illinois, United States – 1957) was an American Western artist and illustrator.
[citation needed] During World War II, he took part in the Consair art colony at the Tucson division of the Consolidated Aircraft corporation.
[1] For 17 years Strang was a successful illustrator in New York for such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, The American Magazine,[2] Ladies' Home Journal, Country Home Country Gentleman and Harper's.
His most famous painting was a work called "Slow Poke", of which there were many reproductions printed.
He had a ranch near Safford Peak in the Picture Rocks section of the Tucson Mountains, where he died in 1957.