id: 159107 accession number: 1995.30.b share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.30.b updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:28.650000 Thirty-Seven Campfires, Mexico (Finding the first water into the canyon...), 1987. Richard Long (British, 1945-). Gelatin silver print; image: 48 x 71.1 cm (18 7/8 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1995.30.b © Artists Right Society (ARS), New York title: Thirty-Seven Campfires, Mexico (Finding the first water into the canyon...) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1987 creation date earliest: 1987 creation date latest: 1987 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: © Artists Right Society (ARS), New York --- culture: England, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - British 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Richard Long (British, 1945-) - artist Richard Long British, 1945 - Richard Long derives inspiration from his interaction with nature, experiencing the land through the English tradition of walking. He collects materials from these ventures,stones, willow branches, seaweed,and incorporates them into his on-site sculpture, often in arrangements such as a circle, spiral, line, or cross that conjure ancient patterns. Using his camera to document these temporary sculptures, Long explores the themes of transformation, the ephemerality of human existence on the land, and notions of time, place, and movement. Long's photographs record the transient aspects of his art-making process and address human presence through implication rather than direct representation. Long, who lives in his native Bristol, studied at the Bristol School of Art (1962) and St. Martin's School of Art, London (1966-68). He has been at the forefront of contemporary art for the past 25 years, with many one-person exhibitions throughout Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada. In addition to his photographic triptych, the Cleveland Museum of Art owns a Long sculpture. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 48 x 71.1 cm (18 7/8 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "FINDING THE FIRST WATER INTO THE CANYON WITH THE LAST OF DAYLIGHT / A BOY BEATS A DRUM AS HE WALKS UP THE FOOTPATH. YELLOW BUTTERFLIES / A GOOD STICK FOR RIVER CROSSINGS. WHITE LIGHT OF A FULL MOON NIGHT / LYING BY A CAMPFIRE A FROG HOPS ONTO MY LEG. SPARKS AND SATELLITES / SITTING IN A WHIRLPOOL HOLLOW ON A WARM BOULDER WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW / CROUCHING ALONG TRAILS AMONGST THORN TREES. A DRIFTWOOD BEND BELOW A HAWK'S PERCH / MUFFLED ECHOING SPLASHES OF STONES THROWN INTO THE RIVER BETWEEN CLIFFS, SHOOTING STAR / A HIGH CAMP ON A STONE RIVERBED BY A TREE SPLITTING THE ROCK / TWO WATERMARKS BELOW TWO RAVENS BEFORE WALKING ON. GETTING HIGHER COLDER WINDIER CLOUDIER / THE SMELL OF PINES. THE PATTERN OF THE NEEDLES ON MY SLEEPING MAT/LYING IN COLD SUNSHINE DRINKING SOUP FOR LUNCH TALKING OF THIS AND THAT / DOWSING THE EMBERS AND LEAVING OUR RIVER STICKS. ORION MOVING BETWEEN THE PINES/DUSTY FOOTPRINTS THROUGH THE SNOW. SITTING WARM BENEATH THE SMOKE OF A CAVE FIRE." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art," see Catalogue of Photography, pp. 62-65.', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Edward & Agnes Lee date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 62, 64, 225 url: --- IMAGES