River Avon Mud Drawing
Richard Long
British, born 1945
(1986)
A drawing made with mud from the River Avon on paper, in which the artist used river sediment itself to record and materialize a trace of the landscape.
You first notice a warm, sandy field topped by a lighter, almost glittering band, while from the lower half a dense web of fine, white, sinuous lines rises like veins, rivulets, or an aerial map of tributaries.
A work of Land Art brought into the museum, it uses earth as both subject and medium—making visible the physical traces of place, walking, and erosion and blurring the line between site-specific action and gallery object.
Medium
Mud on paper
Dimensions
14 1/2 x 9 1/4" (36.9 x 23.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Barbara G. Pine
Accession
72.1987
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