Portland stone
Tate Collection
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-b-mcfall-1608" aria-label="More by David B. McFall" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David B. McFall</a>
Bull Calf
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1943
animals: actions
animals: mammals
architecture
bull
features
lying down
stonework
sculpture portland stone
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
2014-03-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-03-04
Ruin Lust
Exhibition
Bull Calf
object: 476 × 648 × 565 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1943
<p><b>N05443</b> BULL CALF 1942–3</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Portland stone, 18 3/4×25 1/2×22 1/4 (47·5×65×56·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1943.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1943 (1041).</p>
<p>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 ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>’ of a calf on the farm in Buckinghamshire where the artist was working as a labourer. It was sent to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> in the absence of the artist, who had never sent anything in before.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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animals: actions animals: mammals architecture bull features lying down stonework