Untitled (A, B, C – Horizontal), 1994 Untitled (A, B, C – Horizontal), 1994 Untitled (A, B, C – Horizontal), 1994
Richard Long (British, b.1945)
Untitled (A, B, C – Horizontal), 1994

Lithograph on hemp paper
21 ½ x 33 in.; 24 x 35 ½ in. frame

My work is really a self-portrait, in all ways. So, for example, to walk across a country is both a measure of the country itself (its size, shape, and terrain) and also, of myself (how long it takes me and not somebody else). In other works, like my hand circles in mud, or waterlines, my work is more obviously an image of my gestures.
Richard Long

A pioneer of the Land Art movement, Richard Long is best known for incorporating the activity of walking into his work and documenting his experiences through text and photography. Long expanded the idea of what constitutes a sculpture by incorporating the concepts of time, space, and distance into artmaking and by using organic materials like earth, rock, mud, and stones in his Land Art installations.

In Untitled A, B, C, Long uses a mud-like substance to create simple map-like diagrams with his fingerprint. By using mud rather than paint, Long explores elemental form of human mark-making—whether it be a fingerprint on paper or a footprint in nature.

Long was awarded the Turner Prize in 1989, received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 from France, was elected to London’s Royal Academy of Arts in 2001, awarded Japan’s Praemium Imperiale in the field of sculpture in 2009, was made a CBE in 2013, and was knighted in the 2018 Honors List. His major solo exhibitions include Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Tate Britain, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

For more information about Richard Long can be found here:

http://www.richardlong.org/

https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-long