id:			159108
accession number:	1995.30.c
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.30.c
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Thirty-Seven Campfires, Mexico (Two friends on a thirteen day walk...), 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.c © Artists Right Society (ARS), New York

title:				Thirty-Seven Campfires, Mexico (Two friends on a thirteen day walk...)
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creation date:			1987
creation date earliest:		1987
creation date latest:		1987
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright:			© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	England, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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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.
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measurements: Image: 48 x 71.1 cm (18 7/8 x 28 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "TWO FRIENDS ON A THIRTEEN DAY WALK IN THE SIERRA TARAHUMARA / WALKING UP THE RIO URIQUE IN THE BARRANCA DEL COBRE FOR SIX DAYS ALONG THE WAY / /MEXICO 1987."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* 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.

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PROVENANCE

	Edward & Agnes Lee
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wall description:
Richard Long's photographs are simple and direct, drawing on his perceptions of nature as encountered on long walking trips. His art embodies the essence of his experience, not a visual representation of it, and so it signals a radical departure from traditional landscape depictions. The three prints comprising <em>Thirty-Seven Campfires, Mexico</em> record the wild terrain around the Rio Urique in the Mexican mountain range of Sierra Tarahumara, which Long and a friend explored on a six-day walking tour in 1987.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 62, 65, 225
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