David McFall R.A. (1919 - 1988)
Sculptor
David Bernard McFall - CHRONOLOGY & LIST OF SOME PUBLIC WORKS
1919 born 21st December 7.20pm at 8 Craig Road Glasgow in the Parish of Cathcart.
Family: father David McFall, Postman, born 19/2/1891 died 15/8/1975; mother Elizabeth née McEvoy born 17/11/1892; Parents married 27th July 1918 at Hutchesontown, Glasgow; brother: Donald, sister: Betty
1931-1934 Studied at Birmingham Junior School of Arts & Crafts
1935-1939 Studied at Birmingham College of Art under Charles Thomas
1939 Assistant to Eric Gill
1940-1941 Studied at Royal College of Art (Royal Scholarship worth £135 - one of two
awarded that year to Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts students)
1941-1945 Studied at City & Guilds of London Art School, Kennington. (When Royal College of Art was evacuated to the Lake District in the War David joined the City & Guilds Guilds Kennington)
1941-1945 Working for Bucks War Agricultural Committee
1943 The Bull Calf, Portland Stone, first work accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and purchased by the R.A. under the Chantrey Bequest
1944-1956 worked with (Sir) Jacob Epstein.
1949 Hugo Manning, poet, bronze head
1950 Unicorns, Finials & Zodiac Clock on the Bristol New Council House
1951 Boy & Foal, limestone, for The Festival of Britain
1953 Hugh J Taggart, F.R.C.S. Bronze bust
1954 Sir Stafford Cripps inscription cut in stone for Jacob Epstein.
1954 Alderman Frank Sheppard. Bronze bust, for the Bristol New Council House
1955 Elected Associate of Royal Academy
1955 Pocohontas, bronze statue, for Cassells, Red Lion Square
1955 The late Harley Granville-Barker. Bronze bust for British Drama League
1956-1975 Master of Sculpture at City and Guilds of London Art School
1956 Inscription for Epstein's statue of Jan Smutts unveiled Parliament Square
1956 Work on Epstein's TUC Memorial
1956 Margaret Dunlop Epstein headstone Highgate Cemetery
1956 Lord Methuen. Bronze bust
1956 Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bronze bust (Royal Festival Hall & National Portrait Gallery)
1957 Madame Oda Slobodskaya. Bronze head
1957 Sir Francis Glyn K.C.M.G. Bronze bust
1957 Statues of St Bride & St Paul, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street London
1958 The Air Ministry, Whitehall. Stone sculpture
1958 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze head ("The Rocquebrune Head")
1958 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze bust ("The Chartwell Bust") Royal Academy Diploma work
1959 Sir Winston Churchill. Bronze statue (Woodford Green)
1959 W. Godfrey Allen Surveyor of St Paul's Cathedral. Bronze bust (crypt of St Paul's Cathedral)
1961 Ralph Vaughan Williams bronze relief for Leith Hill Festival Memorial Committee
1962 Lord Balfour. Limestone statue (Palace of Westminster)
1963 Elected Royal Academician
1964 Dr Bertrand Hallward, Vice Chancellor Nottingham University. Bronze bust
1964 Lord Brabazon of Tara (Royal Institution). Bronze bust
1964 Sir Allen Clark, Plessey Company. Bronze relief
1964 Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee (National Portrait Gallery & Imperial War Museum) Bronze head
1965 Memorial to Sir Albert Richardson PPRA (Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral)
1966 Crucifixion, Portland stone statue, Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Thames Ditton
1966 Lord Ridley (University, Newcastle upon Tyne). Posthumous bust, bronze
1966 Sir Steuart Wilson, Overseas Music Director BBC, Arts Council 1942-45 (Haileybury). Bronze bust
1968 married for the first time to Bernadette Hemmer 6/4/1968 (parted 27/4/1968)
1968 Shying Horse for LTB New Victoria Line (The Blackhorse Station)
1968 The Golden Gazelle, Abu Dhabi, Trucial States
1968 Churchill statuette for the Dame Felicity Peake Prize (Imperial War Museum)
1969 Stone friezes on William Whitfield's extension to Institute of Chartered Accountants building, London
1969-71 member Royal Mint Advisory Committee
1970 Dr. Charles Baker, Late Warden Guys Hospital Medical School. Bronze bust
1971 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, President, Royal College of Surgeons. Bronze bust
1972 Awarded the Jean Masson Davidson International Award for Distinction in
Portrait Sculpture by the Royal Society of British Portrait Sculptors
1972 Portland stone group of Oedipus & Jocasta (West Norwood Library)
1972 married Alexandra Dane
1973 Memorial to Sir Gerald Kelly (St Paul's Cathedral Crypt)
1973 The late Hugh Stenhouse Esq., Glasgow. Bronze bust
1973 Freedom medals for the Royal Mint
1973 His first child, a daughter, born
1974 Sir George Godber for Royal College of Physicians. Bronze bust
1974 Prof. Sir George Grenfell Baines for Building Design Partnership. Bronze bust
1975 HRH The Prince of Wales. Bronze bust
1975 Josiah Wedgwood, Barlaston, Stoke on Trent. Posthumous bust
1976 Memorial to Lord Fraser of Lonsdale (Westminster Abbey)
1977 HRH The Prince of Wales in the Uniform of the Welsh Guards
1980 The Calcutta Medallion, Mother Theresa
1981 son Leo Morkel McFall born
1983 The only year from 1943 to 1988 when there was no Royal Academy exhibit (due to illness)
1985 left eye removed 4/4/1985
1987 The late Hugh Jolly. Bronze head
1988 Son of Man. Bronze Statue of Christ at Canterbury Cathedral
1988 Sunday 18th September died Charing Cross Hospital London
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