A Line Made By Walking

Maker

(Artists)
born 1945

Title

A Line Made By Walking

Date of Production

1967

Medium

Black and white photograph (silver gelatin print) mounted on board and titled in red crayon and graphite.

Dimensions

Height: 37.5 cm
Width: 32 cm

Object Number

G.2009.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

Richard Long, gift, 11.8.2009

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

  • photographs

Label Text

This seminal work was created whilst Long was a sculpture student at St Martin’s College, where Anthony Caro and Philip King were among his tutors. He took a train from London and got off when it reached open countryside and found a suitable field. He walked back and forth until the flattened grass caught the sunlight and became visible as a line, which he then photographed.
The work challenged the idea that sculpture had to be made of material taken into the studio. Instead, he began what would become a life-long interest in making works in the landscape. His subsequent art is inseparable from his experiences of extended and arduous walking expeditions, which have taken him across the globe.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : red crayon with feint ruled graphite lines : lower centre & recto : on mount : A LINE MADE BY WALKING //

Inscription: inscription : graphite with feint ruled graphite lines : lower centre & recto : on mount : ENGLAND 1967 //

Provenance

Gift of the artist 2009

Exhibition History

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme - Radical Drawing, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 18/10/2019-19/01/2020
There Not There (working title), Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2018-15/07/2018
Impress: Print Making Expanded in Contemporary Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2014-20/07/2014
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Land Art: The New Art of Landscape in Britain 1967-79, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, 09/05/2013-04/08/2013; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 28/09/2013-05/01/2014; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 18/01/2014-08/03/2014; Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 05/05/2014-15/06/2014
The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010
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