Description
Apples of the Valley by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Apples of the Valley by P. Buckley Moss is a 2022 limited-edition giclée that places the apple harvest at the center of a working rural landscape. A broad fruit tree dominates the composition, surrounded by tall picking ladders, overflowing wooden baskets, scattered apples, rolling golden fields, water, and a small green tractor in the distance.
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 64515, a current price of $70, the 2022 date, and the classifications Giclée, Limited Edition, Numbered Edition, John Deere, Tractor, and Farm.
Story Behind the Artwork
Unlike Moss apple works that focus on people carrying the harvest, Apples of the Valley makes the orchard itself the protagonist.
A large apple tree spreads across the center, its dark trunk supporting a broad canopy filled with green, gold, and red. Bright red apples appear throughout the branches. Three tall ladders lean into and around the tree, suggesting the work required to reach fruit throughout the canopy.
The harvest has already begun. Three wooden baskets in the foreground are filled with apples, while additional fruit rests on the ground. Behind the tree, flowing bands of gold, ochre, and brown create cultivated hills and fields.
A small green tractor appears at right, providing a mechanical counterpoint to the ladders and hand-filled baskets. Water and distant land complete the valley setting.
No workers are actually shown. Instead, Moss tells the story through the evidence of their work—ladders positioned in the tree, baskets already filled, apples gathered below, and a tractor waiting beyond.
Symbols & Meaning
Because the tree is shown simultaneously with fruit on its branches, filled baskets below, and ladders positioned for picking, the image can be read as a visual story of cultivation becoming harvest.
The contrast between ladders and tractor also brings together two different tools of agricultural work: one simple and human-scaled, the other mechanized.
Harvest imagery has broad cultural associations with abundance, provision, work, and gratitude. Those associations make Apples of the Valley particularly appropriate for autumn and Thanksgiving displays, but they should not be presented as meanings Moss specifically assigned to the artwork.
Artistic Details
The composition is anchored by the apple tree’s heavy, dark trunk. Its branching canopy spreads outward in an irregular rounded mass of green, yellow, ochre, and red.
Against that organic form, the ladders introduce long, narrow vertical lines. The tallest rises nearly through the center of the canopy, while the others create additional diagonals and verticals on either side.
Moss repeats circular forms throughout the picture: apples hang from branches, fill the baskets, and lie scattered across the foreground. The baskets themselves create larger rounded shapes beneath the tree.
The palette moves from the cool aqua-blue sky and water to warm golden fields, green foliage, red apples, and the small green tractor. Fine dark contour lines across the hills reinforce the movement of the terrain and give the valley an almost rhythmic quality.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving
The apple harvest is unmistakably the principal subject. The fruiting tree, picking ladders, filled baskets, agricultural setting, and gathered crop align directly with CGG’s harvest-centered collection framework.
Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America
This is a particularly strong secondary placement because CGG independently classifies Apples of the Valley under John Deere, Tractor, and Farm. The agricultural landscape and tools of farm work reinforce that connection.
Supporting Master Collection: The American Landscape
The rolling cultivated hills, open valley, water, and expansive agricultural setting make landscape more than a background detail.
Decorating Ideas
The combination of apple red, leaf green, tractor green, golden ochre, warm brown, and aqua blue gives Apples of the Valley more color than many subdued rural Moss works.
It can work especially well in a kitchen, dining room, breakfast area, farmhouse living room, family room, or country-inspired gallery wall. The horizontal format also makes it useful above a console, sideboard, small buffet, or grouping of kitchen collectibles.
For seasonal decorating, it can move easily from late-summer orchard season through autumn and Thanksgiving without depending on overt holiday imagery.
Gift Ideas
Apples of the Valley has especially clear relevance for farm families, orchard owners, apple growers, John Deere enthusiasts, rural-heritage families, gardeners, and collectors of agricultural Moss subjects.
It could commemorate a family farm, an orchard tradition, a fall birthday, retirement from farming, housewarming, Thanksgiving, or a shared family memory of apple picking.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Apples of the Valley
Product ID: 64515
Year: 2022
Medium: Giclée fine-art print
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 300 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches — supplied
Orientation: Horizontal
Current CGG price: $70
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied
CGG subjects: John Deere; Tractor; Farm
CGG independently verifies the 2022 date, Product ID 64515, $70 price, Giclée, Limited Edition, Numbered Edition, John Deere, Tractor, and Farm classifications.
🎨 Fun Fact:
Those tall ladders around the apple tree are more than a nostalgic orchard detail. Traditional apple harvesting may require a straight orchard ladder to reach fruit high in a tree, and professional harvest training emphasizes positioning the ladder toward the tree’s center and picking reachable lower fruit before setting the ladder in place so apples are not knocked down or bruised. The ladders in Apples of the Valley therefore connect the scene with a practical part of orchard work that continues today.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes Apples of the Valley is Moss’s decision to tell a harvest story almost entirely without people. The ladders, overflowing baskets, scattered apples, and tractor make human activity unmistakable even though no workers appear. Visually, the massive dark tree provides the composition’s anchor while three slender ladders rise through its spreading canopy and the baskets repeat the rounded forms of the fruit below. The verified John Deere / Tractor / Farm classifications add another dimension for collectors interested in Moss’s agricultural imagery, while the 2022 giclée format places the work among her later limited editions.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Apples of the Valley as Product ID 64515, a 2022 Limited Edition, Numbered Giclée, currently priced at $70. The supplied gallery record identifies the available print as new and mint, with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Continue Exploring
For apple-focused fine art, CGG’s inventory provides a strong group of related works including:
- Apple Maid
- Apple Orchard Hayride – Apple Orchard Hayride is particularly relevant because CGG also classifies it under John Deere, giving the two works a connection beyond their apple subjects.
- Apple Farmers
- Apple Kids
- Apple Time
- Apple Barn
- Apple Blossom Time – Apple Orchard Hayride is particularly relevant because CGG also classifies it under John Deere, giving the two works a connection beyond their apple subjects.
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- P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
- P. Buckley Moss Rare Prints
- The Collections Hub
- John Deere
- Tractor
- Apple Art
“The harvest tells its own story.”
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