The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Riverside Scene
2021
(American, b. 1995)
Framed: 163.8 x 205.7 x 6.3 cm (64 1/2 x 81 x 2 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2021.178
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
In 2018 at age twenty-three, Tyler Mitchell was the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history.Description
Born and raised in Atlanta, Tyler Mitchell in this staged scene transforms the Georgia landscape, a place of historical trauma for Black people, into an Eden that offers them instead leisure, refuge, and rootedness. Mitchell imbued the image with a soft focus and misty golden glow that evoke the languor of a humid summer day in Georgia and the haziness of an imagined memory.- 2021Tyler Mitchell (the artist) [1995-]2021(Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)December 6, 2021-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Matt Eich and Tyler Mitchell: Sunlight, Shadow, and A Rainbow. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 6, 2022).
- {{cite web|title=Riverside Scene|url=false|author=Tyler Mitchell|year=2021|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.178