# David McFall

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Scottish sculptor

**David Bernard McFall** [RA](/source/Royal_Academician) (12 December 1919 – 18 September 1988) was a Scottish [sculptor](/source/Sculptor).

Mural by David McFall of a black horse outside [Blackhorse Road station](/source/Blackhorse_Road_station), North London.

Born in Glasgow, McFall studied at the [Junior School of Arts and Crafts](/source/College_of_Art%2C_Balsall_Heath) in Birmingham from 1931 to 1934, and at the [Birmingham School of Art](/source/Birmingham_School_of_Art) from 1934 to 1939.[1] In 1939 he worked as an assistant to [Eric Gill](/source/Eric_Gill), before studying at the [Royal College of Art](/source/Royal_College_of_Art) in London from 1940 to 1941, and at the [City and Guilds of London Art School](/source/City_and_Guilds_of_London_Art_School) from 1941 to 1945.[2] He worked with [Jacob Epstein](/source/Jacob_Epstein) from 1944 until 1958, returning to the City and Guilds School in Kennington to teach from 1956.[3]

Notable works include *The Bull Calf* (Portland Stone), which was selected for the [Royal Academy Summer Exhibition](/source/Royal_Academy_Summer_Exhibition) and bought for the [Tate](/source/Tate) in 1942 while the sculptor was still a student; *Boy and Horse* (Stone), which featured in the [Dome of Discovery](/source/Dome_of_Discovery) at the [Festival of Britain](/source/Festival_of_Britain); the black horse mural outside [Blackhorse Road station](/source/Blackhorse_Road_station);[4] a major [statue](/source/Statue_of_Winston_Churchill%2C_Woodford) of [Winston Churchill](/source/Winston_Churchill),[3] and a statue of [Pocahontas](/source/Pocahontas) for the publisher [Cassell](/source/Cassell_(publisher)).[5]

He was elected an Associate of the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in 1955 and a full member in 1963.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Tate_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Tate_1-1) ["David B. McFall"](http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1608&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio). *Tate Collection*. [Tate](/source/Tate). Retrieved 5 June 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["David Bernard McFall – CHRONOLOGY & LIST OF SOME PUBLIC WORKS"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110814084948/http://davidmcfall.co.uk/aboutus.aspx). *David McFall R.A. (1919–1988) Sculptor*. Archived from [the original](http://davidmcfall.co.uk/aboutus.aspx) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Ward-Jackson_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Ward-Jackson_3-1) Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003). ["David Bernard McFall (1919–88)"](https://books.google.com/books?id=KiK0DbcUBIUC&pg=RA2-PA469). *Public Sculpture of the City of London*. Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 469–470. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-85323-977-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85323-977-0). Retrieved 17 December 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Porter, Laura. ["Blackhorse Road"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140712092121/http://golondon.about.com/od/Victoria-Line-Tile-Motifs/ss/Blackhorse-Road.htm). *GoLondon*. Archived from [the original](http://golondon.about.com/od/Victoria-Line-Tile-Motifs/ss/Blackhorse-Road.htm) on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Pocahontas: La Belle Sauvage"](https://pamela-green.com/pocahontas-la-belle-sauvage/). *Pamela Green: Never Knowingly Overdressed*. 15 February 2024.

## External links

- [David McFall R.A. (1919–1988)](http://www.davidmcfall.co.uk) Tribute website

- [Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections](http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5784)

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