David Edgar Strachan (25 June 1919 – 23 November 1970) was an Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. Strachan was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1919 to a doctor in the Australian Army. In 1920 David and his family moved to Adelaide, later moving to Creswick, Victoria.He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria. Strachan moved to Sydney in 1941, and exhibited with many other prominent artists of the Contemporary Art Group. He again left for Europe in 1948 where he began experimenting in etching in Paris. He won the Wynne Prize in 1961 and 1964.