Description

Apple Maid by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Apple Maid by P. Buckley Moss is a 2003 limited-edition lithograph built around an imaginative visual idea: the entire rural scene is contained within the shape of an apple. At its center, a single traditionally dressed woman carries a basket filled with red fruit, while orchard trees spread across the softly colored landscape behind her.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 5562, a current price of $65, and the classifications Limited Edition, Lithograph, and Numbered Edition. Importantly, the current CGG inventory does not classify Apple Maid as Rare.

Story Behind the Artwork

The apple shape does more than frame the picture—it establishes the subject before the viewer even reaches the central figure.

Within that outline, Moss places a solitary woman carrying a substantial harvest basket. Behind her stand several orchard trees, their spreading branches filling the broadest part of the apple-shaped composition. The simplified landscape remains open and uncluttered, keeping the relationship between the woman, basket, orchard, and apple form immediately readable.

A green stem rises dramatically from the top, while multiple bands of pale green and blue-gray define the apple’s perimeter. The result is part rural scene and part graphic design: a landscape transformed into the fruit associated with its harvest.

Symbols & Meaning

Because Moss constructs the entire composition in the form of an apple, fruit and harvest become both subject and structure.

Apples have long associations with orchards, seasonal harvests, food, and home traditions. A basket filled after gathering fruit can likewise evoke work, provision, and the annual rhythm of growing and harvesting.

These are broad cultural associations rather than documented statements of Moss’s intention. The artwork does not establish the woman’s identity, her relationship to the orchard, or a specific symbolic meaning for the apple-shaped border.

Artistic Details

The apple-shaped composition is the artwork’s defining visual feature.

Moss uses soft greens, blue-greens, cream, gray, and muted earth tones throughout the orchard. Against that restrained palette, the basket and its red fruit introduce a concentrated area of warmer color near the center.

The woman’s dark skirt and fitted clothing create a strong vertical figure beneath the apple’s stem. Her small scale relative to the surrounding fruit shape emphasizes the whimsical construction of the image.

The orchard trees also contribute to the design. Their branching forms spread outward behind the figure and echo the rounded contours surrounding them.

Unlike a conventional rectangular landscape, Apple Maid asks the viewer to see an orchard inside an apple—an unusually direct visual connection between a crop and the place where it grows.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving

Harvest is central to the artwork through the basket of fruit, orchard setting, and apple-shaped composition. CGG’s collection framework connects Harvest & Thanksgiving with harvests, abundance, farm life, autumn traditions, and gratitude.

Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America

The orchard, traditionally dressed rural figure, basket, and agricultural setting connect naturally with rural work and country life.

Supporting Master Collection: Gardens & Seasons

The fruit trees and seasonal cycle of an orchard provide a secondary connection to cultivated nature and the changing seasons.

Decorating Ideas

At 6 x 7 inches, Apple Maid has an intimate scale that works particularly well in a kitchen, breakfast nook, dining room, pantry area, hallway, or small gallery wall.

Its muted green palette complements farmhouse, country, traditional, and collected Americana interiors. Because the apple form is recognizable from a distance, the piece can also work particularly well among vintage kitchen objects, baskets, botanical subjects, or other Moss fruit and harvest artwork.

For seasonal displays, its orchard theme can transition naturally from late summer through apple-picking season and Thanksgiving.

Gift Ideas

Apple Maid offers a particularly specific gift connection for apple growers, orchard families, gardeners, cooks, rural-heritage families, and collectors of Moss’s harvest imagery.

It could also mark a housewarming, fall birthday, Thanksgiving gathering, hostess gift, or family connection to an orchard or apple-growing region.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Apple Maid
Product ID: 5562
Year: 2003 — supplied
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 6 x 7 inches — supplied
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches — supplied
Orientation: Vertical / near square
Current CGG price: $65 — verified
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied

CGG independently verifies Product ID 5562, $65, Limited Edition, Lithograph, and Numbered Edition.

🎨 Fun Fact:

An apple orchard can contain a surprising amount of genetic variety because apples grown from seed usually do not reproduce the parent tree exactly. For centuries, orchardists have preserved desirable apple varieties by grafting—joining a piece of a chosen variety to compatible rootstock so the resulting tree produces that variety’s fruit. This is why named apples can be maintained generation after generation rather than depending on seedlings to reproduce the same characteristics. The fact concerns apple cultivation generally and does not document the particular orchard depicted in Apple Maid.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What makes Apple Maid particularly distinctive is that Moss does not merely place apples within a rural scene—she makes the apple itself the architecture of the composition. The orchard, solitary figure, and harvest basket all exist inside its rounded outline, while the large green stem completes the idea above them. The woman’s dark clothing provides a strong central vertical against the pale orchard, and the red fruit in her basket becomes a small but important color accent. For collectors interested in Moss’s apple imagery, this combination of figurative art, orchard landscape, harvest subject, and graphic apple-shaped framing gives the work an identity quite different from a conventional farm or orchard scene.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Apple Maid as Product ID 5562, a Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph currently priced at $65. The supplied gallery record identifies the available print as new and mint, from an edition of 1,000 numbered prints and 25 artist’s proofs, with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Continue Exploring

For a focused P. Buckley Moss apple-art grouping:

• Apple Kids — a 1986 Rare-classified Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph.
• Apple Farmers — a 1988 Rare-classified Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph.
• Apple Orchard Hayride — a 2001 Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph with rural and children-related subject classifications.
• Apple Barn
• Apple Beauties 
• Apple Blossom Time
• Apple Time
• Apples of the Valley 

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
• P. Buckley Moss Ornaments
• Autumn Art
• Rural Life

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“An orchard inside an apple.”