{{short description|Scottish sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} '''David Bernard McFall''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (12 December 1919 – 18 September 1988) was a Scottish [[sculptor]].
[[File:Blackhorse Road station mural by David McFall.jpg|thumb|250px|Mural by David McFall of a black horse outside [[Blackhorse Road station]], North London.]] Born in Glasgow, McFall studied at the [[College of Art, Balsall Heath|Junior School of Arts and Crafts]] in Birmingham from 1931 to 1934, and at the [[Birmingham School of Art]] from 1934 to 1939.<ref name="Tate">{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1608&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio|title=David B. McFall |access-date=2009-06-05|work=Tate Collection|publisher=[[Tate]]}}</ref> In 1939 he worked as an assistant to [[Eric Gill]], before studying at the [[Royal College of Art]] in London from 1940 to 1941, and at the [[City and Guilds of London Art School]] from 1941 to 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://davidmcfall.co.uk/aboutus.aspx |title=David Bernard McFall – CHRONOLOGY & LIST OF SOME PUBLIC WORKS |access-date=2009-06-07 |work=David McFall R.A. (1919–1988) Sculptor |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814084948/http://davidmcfall.co.uk/aboutus.aspx |archive-date=2011-08-14 }}</ref> He worked with [[Jacob Epstein]] from 1944 until 1958, returning to the City and Guilds School in Kennington to teach from 1956.<ref name="Ward-Jackson">{{cite book|last=Ward-Jackson|first=Philip|title=Public Sculpture of the City of London|access-date=2008-12-17|series=Public Sculpture of Britain|year=2003|publisher=Liverpool University Press|location=Liverpool|isbn=0-85323-977-0|pages=469–470|chapter=David Bernard McFall (1919–88)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiK0DbcUBIUC&pg=RA2-PA469}}</ref>
Notable works include ''The Bull Calf'' (Portland Stone), which was selected for the [[Royal Academy Summer Exhibition]] and bought for the [[Tate]] in 1942 while the sculptor was still a student; ''Boy and Horse'' (Stone), which featured in the [[Dome of Discovery]] at the [[Festival of Britain]]; the black horse mural outside [[Blackhorse Road station]];<ref>{{cite web|last=Porter|first=Laura|url=http://golondon.about.com/od/Victoria-Line-Tile-Motifs/ss/Blackhorse-Road.htm|title=Blackhorse Road|work=GoLondon|access-date=2014-08-04|archive-date=12 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712092121/http://golondon.about.com/od/Victoria-Line-Tile-Motifs/ss/Blackhorse-Road.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> a major [[Statue of Winston Churchill, Woodford|statue]] of [[Winston Churchill]],<ref name="Ward-Jackson" /> and a statue of [[Pocahontas]] for the publisher [[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pocahontas: La Belle Sauvage |url=https://pamela-green.com/pocahontas-la-belle-sauvage/ |website=Pamela Green: Never Knowingly Overdressed |date=15 February 2024 }}</ref>
He was elected an Associate of the [[Royal Academy]] in 1955 and a full member in 1963.<ref name="Tate" />
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==External links== *[http://www.davidmcfall.co.uk David McFall R.A. (1919–1988)] Tribute website * [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5784 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]
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