Description
Autumn at Home by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Autumn at Home by P. Buckley Moss is a 2006 limited-edition lithograph that celebrates the changing season through one especially inviting subject: home. A white house with green shutters stands within a softly glowing landscape of gold and amber trees, while pumpkins gather beside the picket fence and along the foreground garden.
Moss keeps the composition intimate rather than expansive. The house occupies the center of a rounded vignette, surrounded by just enough seasonal detail to establish autumn while keeping the architecture firmly at the heart of the image.
Canada Goose Gallery currently lists Autumn at Home as a 2006 limited, numbered lithograph, edition of 1,000, with an image size of 8¾ × 12 inches.
Story Behind the Artwork
At first glance, the white house is the obvious subject. Look longer, however, and the season becomes equally important. Golden foliage rises behind the roofline, pumpkins rest outside the fence, and low plantings stretch across the front of the property.
The white picket fence creates an important visual boundary without shutting the viewer out. We remain outside the home, but the open spacing between the pickets allows us to look into the yard and experience the house as welcoming rather than remote.
Autumn at Home is also part of a larger four-print idea. Canada Goose Gallery offers it within the Home Seasons Set, alongside Spring at Home, Summer at Home, and Winter at Home. The same theme of home is revisited as the landscape changes through the year.
Symbols & Meaning
The house can naturally suggest shelter, belonging, continuity, and the familiar rituals of home, while pumpkins and changing foliage connect the setting to harvest season and autumn.
The fence is another meaningful visual element. It defines the home’s immediate space but remains visually open, creating a balance between enclosure and welcome.
These are visual and cultural interpretations. No documented artist statement has been supplied establishing a specific symbolic program for Autumn at Home.
Artistic Details
Moss builds the composition around the strong geometry of the house. The steep roofline, rectangular windows, green shutters, and vertical pickets provide structure, while the irregular trees and pumpkins soften those architectural forms.
The white façade acts almost like a visual pause between the warmer autumn colors surrounding it. Golden foliage fills much of the rounded background, while orange pumpkins supply concentrated color near the bottom of the picture.
The green shutters are particularly effective because they repeat the remaining green vegetation near the fence, connecting the architecture with the garden.
The rounded vignette also helps the work feel like a remembered view rather than a broad landscape. The edges dissolve gently into white paper, concentrating attention on the home and its seasonal surroundings.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: The American Home
This is the strongest placement. Canada Goose Gallery’s approved Master Collection framework specifically includes Autumn at Home, along with Spring at Home, Summer at Home, and Winter at Home, among the representative works for The American Home. The collection centers on homes, domestic architecture, hospitality, simple living, and the traditions that make a house feel like home.
Supporting Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving
The pumpkins and autumn setting provide a natural seasonal connection to harvest, fall gathering, and Thanksgiving decorating.
Supporting Master Collection: Gardens & Seasons
The changing foliage, garden plantings, and seasonal transformation of the same home make this another useful supporting pathway.
Decorating Ideas
Autumn at Home is particularly well suited to an entryway, kitchen, dining room, living room, breakfast area, or family room. Its combination of domestic architecture and autumn color gives it seasonal warmth without making it dependent on a single holiday.
The cream, white, gold, green, and pumpkin-orange palette fits naturally with Traditional, Cottage, Farmhouse, Americana, and Collected Home interiors.
There is also an especially appealing decorating possibility unique to this work: display it with the other Home Seasons prints. Collectors could rotate the four images as the seasons change or display the complete matched set together as a visual study of continuity and change.
Gift Ideas
Because the subject is home itself, this print has a particularly natural connection to housewarmings, anniversaries, weddings, new-home celebrations, fall birthdays, and Thanksgiving.
It can also make a thoughtful gift for someone who loves pumpkins, autumn decorating, historic-looking homes, gardens, or artwork centered on the emotional idea of coming home.
About the Edition
Autumn at Home was issued in 2006 as a limited, numbered lithograph on paper.
Numbered edition: 1,000
Artist’s proofs: 25
Image size: 8¾ × 12 inches
Paper size: 12¼ × 12 5/16 inches
Condition: Mint
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Current Canada Goose Gallery price: $85
The Canada Goose Gallery inventory confirms Product ID 5569, current $85 price, lithograph medium, and limited numbered edition. The documented edition of 1,000 plus 25 Artist’s Proofs is also independently reflected in published Moss inventory material.
🎨 Fun Fact:
The white picket fence became such a powerful American image that its meaning eventually grew far beyond its practical purpose. Picket fences trace back to pointed wooden barriers, but by the 19th century mass-produced fence parts had made decorative pickets common around American homes. Smithsonian history notes that the Colonial Revival movement around the time of the 1876 Centennial helped renew their popularity, and by the post–World War II era the white picket fence had become visual shorthand for the ideal American home. That history makes the fence in Autumn at Home more interesting than a simple garden boundary—it belongs to a long architectural tradition associated with domestic life in America.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes Autumn at Home is that the season changes while home remains the constant. The white house provides the stable architectural center, while pumpkins, golden trees, and garden details tell us where we are in the annual cycle. That idea becomes even more meaningful when the print is considered alongside Spring at Home, Summer at Home, and Winter at Home. For collectors, the four related works offer an opportunity to follow the same domestic theme through the entire year rather than treating autumn as an isolated seasonal subject.
Continue Exploring
Love the seasonal welcome of Autumn at Home? Continue through the year with Spring at Home, Summer at Home, and Winter at Home—or collect all four together in the Home Seasons Set. For more fall color, pumpkins, and familiar places, explore Autumn at the Moss Barn, Autumn at the Cloisters, and our Harvest & Thanksgiving collection.
- Spring at Home — Home • Spring • Seasonal Series
- Summer at Home — Home • Summer • Seasonal Series
- Winter at Home — Home • Winter • Geese
- Home Seasons Set designed with four seasons of prints sold as a matched seasonal series.
- Autumn at the Moss Barn — Pumpkins • Autumn • Historic Place
- Autumn at the Cloisters — Pumpkins • Geese • Historic Place
- Blue Ridge Fall
- Blue Ridge Seasons Set
- Appalachian Seasons Set
Visitors who respond more strongly to pumpkins and autumn setting:
- Autumn at the Moss Barn
- Autumn at the Cloisters
- Autumn on the Farm
- Fall on the Farm
- Lancaster Ride
- Family Ties
- Golden Autumn Artist Proof
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery specializes in P. Buckley Moss artwork and provides collectors with clear edition, condition, and authenticity information. Autumn at Home is available individually, while collectors interested in the complete seasonal concept can also explore the Home Seasons Set through Canada Goose Gallery.
This print can be purchased separately or as part of the Home Seasons Set of prints.
“The season changes. Home remains.”
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