 Strachan, a contemporary of Harry Clarke (1889 -1931) in Ireland, and Christopher Whall in England, is seen as one of the three most important stained glass artists working in Great Britain and Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.Strachan died at Lasswade, Midlothian and is buried in the central section of the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.Although Strachan was interested in Futurism, Cubism, and Vorticism, his work shows little influence of this.