
Not on display
- Artist
- David B. McFall 1919–1988
- Medium
- Portland stone
- Dimensions
- Object: 476 × 648 × 565 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1943
- Reference
- N05443
Catalogue entry
N05443 BULL CALF 1942–3
Not inscribed.
Portland stone, 18 3/4×25 1/2×22 1/4 (47·5×65×56·5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1943.
Exh: R.A., 1943 (1041).
Carved 1942–3 at the Kennington School of Art where the artist was a week-end student. The stone came from a bombed bank in Southwark, and the artist has left some of the nineteenth-century decoration on the base. The work is an actual ‘portrait’ of a calf on the farm in Buckinghamshire where the artist was working as a labourer. It was sent to the Academy in the absence of the artist, who had never sent anything in before.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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