Description
Apple Orchard Hayride by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Apple Orchard Hayride by P. Buckley Moss is a 2001 limited-edition lithograph filled with the activity of an autumn orchard. A green tractor pulls a blue wooden wagon carrying a group of children beneath the spreading branches of a fruit-laden apple tree, while two deer stand quietly beyond the wagon.
The wide horizontal composition brings together several subjects strongly associated with Moss’s rural work: children, farm life, apples, traditional dress, animals, and agricultural machinery. Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 5564, a current price of $100, the 2001 date, and the classifications Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, John Deere, Deer, and Children. The fuller inventory taxonomy also includes Amish Art, Animal, Children, Folk Art, Men, and Nature.
Story Behind the Artwork
The story unfolds from left to right like a small rural procession.
At the front, an adult driver in a straw hat guides a green tractor. Behind him, a blue wooden wagon carries a group of children of different sizes and ages. One child raises a bright red apple overhead, creating a playful focal point near the center of the scene.
Above them stretches a large apple tree whose branches fill much of the upper half of the composition. Red fruit repeats throughout its pale green canopy. Smaller orchard trees continue into the distance, establishing that this is more than a single backyard tree.
At the far right, two deer stand beneath the outer branches. Their quiet presence provides a counterpoint to the tractor, wagon, and lively group of children.
Moss therefore gives the scene several simultaneous layers: a working tractor, a wagon ride, children, an apple harvest, an orchard, and wildlife sharing the rural landscape.
Symbols & Meaning
A hayride through an apple orchard can evoke childhood outings, fall gatherings, farm visits, and seasonal traditions. The child holding an apple overhead reinforces the connection between the ride and the surrounding orchard.
The scene may also suggest a relationship between work and recreation. A tractor and farm wagon are agricultural equipment, yet here the wagon carries children through the orchard rather than a crop.
Those interpretations arise from the visible imagery. No artwork-specific artist statement has been supplied establishing that Moss intended the scene to symbolize community, gratitude, family unity, or the passing of traditions between generations.
Artistic Details
The unusually wide format—17-5/16 inches across by 8-13/16 inches high according to the supplied record—allows Moss to create movement across the page.
The tractor establishes the direction at left. Its large yellow rear wheel leads directly into the wagon’s repeating wheels, producing a strong horizontal rhythm.
The figures then create a second rhythm across the wagon. Dark hats and bonnets alternate with pale faces and colored clothing, while the raised red apple breaks the otherwise horizontal arrangement with a small upward gesture.
Above them, the massive tree creates a contrasting network of irregular branches. Its dark trunk and limbs spread across a pale green canopy dotted with red apples.
The palette is particularly effective: tractor green, weathered blue, apple red, black, muted lavender, soft yellow-green, and warm straw tones distinguish individual elements while maintaining a rural character.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Childhood & Storytelling
Children dominate the wagon and provide the image’s most animated narrative. The raised apple, differing expressions, and procession-like composition turn the orchard ride into a childhood story rather than simply a farm landscape. CGG independently verifies Children as a subject classification.
Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America
The tractor, wagon, orchard, harvest setting, traditional rural clothing, and agricultural landscape provide a particularly strong rural-life connection.
Supporting Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving
The fruit-filled apple tree, orchard setting, and apple held aloft by one of the children create a genuine harvest-season connection, although the artwork focuses more strongly on the hayride and children than on gathering the crop.
Decorating Ideas
The panoramic proportions make Apple Orchard Hayride well suited to a family room, kitchen, dining area, child’s room, playroom, farmhouse entryway, or long gallery wall.
Its greens, blue-grays, reds, black, and warm yellow tones work naturally with farmhouse, Americana, country, and collected traditional interiors.
It can also anchor an autumn display without looking exclusively like Thanksgiving décor. The apple orchard and wagon ride establish the season, while the children, tractor, and deer keep the subject broader than a holiday image.
Gift Ideas
Apple Orchard Hayride has several strong gifting connections: farm families, grandparents, families with apple-picking traditions, John Deere enthusiasts, rural-heritage families, and collectors of Moss’s children or Amish subjects.
It could mark a fall birthday, family reunion, grandparent gift, housewarming, farm retirement, Thanksgiving gathering, or a family’s annual apple-orchard tradition.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Apple Orchard Hayride
Product ID: 5564
Year: 2001
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 8-13/16 x 17-5/16 inches — supplied
Paper size: 10-13/16 x 19-5/16 inches — supplied
Orientation: Horizontal / panoramic
Current CGG price: $100
Condition: Never previously sold; mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied
Verified subjects: John Deere; Deer; Children; Amish Art; Animal; Folk Art; Men; Nature
CGG independently verifies 2001, Product ID 5564, $100, Limited Edition, Lithograph, and Numbered Edition.
🎨 Fun Fact:
The familiar autumn “hayride” has agricultural roots: farm wagons were originally practical vehicles for moving crops and materials, and recreational wagon rides later turned that equipment into part of seasonal celebrations. Apple Orchard Hayride adds another layer to that tradition because its ride takes place among fruiting apple trees rather than in an open hayfield. The term “hayride” therefore describes the tradition and wagon-ride experience, not necessarily a wagon visibly filled with hay—an important distinction in this artwork, where the wagon carries children and no hay is visible.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
Apple Orchard Hayride is distinctive because Moss combines several narrative centers without allowing any one of them to overwhelm the others. The green tractor starts the eye moving across the composition; the wagon of children supplies personality and activity; the child raising a red apple connects the passengers directly to the orchard overhead; and the two deer create a quiet ending at the far right. The long 17-5/16-inch image width gives Moss enough space to turn these separate moments into one continuous rural story. Its verified John Deere, Deer, and Children classifications make it especially useful for collectors whose interests cross between farm machinery, childhood subjects, wildlife, and apple imagery.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Apple Orchard Hayride as Product ID 5564, a 2001 Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph currently priced at $100. The supplied gallery record identifies the available print as never previously sold and in mint condition, from an edition of 1,000 numbered prints and 25 artist’s proofs, with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Continue Exploring
For the closest fine-art connection, Apples of the Valley should receive priority. Both works combine an apple harvest with green farm machinery, and CGG explicitly classifies both within its John Deere-related inventory. Apples of the Valley shifts the story from children riding through an orchard to ladders, baskets, and the work of gathering apples.
Other strong apple companions include:
- Apple Kids
- Apple Time
- Apple Maid
- Apple Farmers
- Blue Eyed Boy
- Basket Boy
- Apple Beauties
- The Secret
- Twins
- Melanie
- Sleepy Jane
- Becky
- Girl With Apple Basket Painting
- Two Little Hands
- November Artist Proof
- Jane
Suggested Categories & Subjects:
- P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
- P. Buckley Moss Rare Prints
- The Collections Hub
- Children
- Farm Art
- John Deere
- Apple Art
“All aboard for apple season.”
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