Description
Baskets of Apples by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Baskets of Apples by P. Buckley Moss is a Rare, limited-edition numbered lithograph centered on two traditionally dressed figures and the apple harvest. The woman holds a broad handled basket filled with red apples, while the taller man beside her carries a second woven basket. Additional apples, leafy branches, and looping vine-like lines frame the pair, turning the harvest theme into part of the composition itself.
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 11741, a current price of $80, and the classifications Rare, Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, Amish Art, Folk Art, Men, and Women.
Story Behind the Artwork
Rather than showing an orchard stretching into the distance, Baskets of Apples brings the harvest close to the viewer.
Two figures stand together inside a pale circular field. The woman holds the largest basket directly in front of her, filled nearly to its rim with red apples. The man stands slightly behind her, carrying a smaller basket containing additional red fruit.
Moss then expands the apple motif beyond their baskets. Large red apples appear at the lower left and right edges, while curling dark branches and green leaves move across the surrounding space. These elements create a loose botanical frame around the central figures.
The result is an unusually decorative harvest composition in which people, baskets, fruit, and framing elements all reinforce the same subject.
Symbols & Meaning
Harvest imagery can naturally evoke abundance, provision, seasonal work, and gratitude, while two people gathering or carrying a crop can suggest cooperation.
The image also has a strong connection with autumn traditions surrounding orchards, apple picking, preserving food, baking, and shared meals.
These are cultural and editorial interpretations. No artwork-specific artist statement has been supplied establishing that Moss intended the apples to symbolize gratitude, family, faith, prosperity, or “the sweetness of life.”
Artistic Details
The visual strength of Baskets of Apples comes from the contrast between its simplified central figures and its lively decorative border.
Black clothing creates two strong vertical forms, accented by narrow passages of blue and purple. The warm tan baskets interrupt those dark silhouettes, while the saturated red apples provide the composition’s clearest color accents.
The circular pale field behind the figures functions almost like a spotlight, separating them from the more freely drawn branches, leaves, and apples around its perimeter.
Moss also varies the baskets themselves. The broad basket held by the woman stretches horizontally across her body, while the man’s smaller basket hangs vertically from one hand. Those differences add rhythm to a composition otherwise dominated by the tall figures.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving
This is the strongest assignment. Apples and filled harvest baskets dominate the imagery, while CGG’s collection framework associates Harvest & Thanksgiving with harvest, abundance, autumn traditions, farm life, and gratitude.
Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America
CGG independently classifies the work as Amish Art and Folk Art, while the baskets and harvested fruit connect it naturally with agricultural work and rural tradition.
Decorating Ideas
Baskets of Apples is particularly well suited to a kitchen, dining room, breakfast area, pantry wall, entryway, or collected Americana display.
Its black, cream, tan, muted green, purple-blue, and apple-red palette complements farmhouse and traditional interiors without depending on conventional orange-and-brown fall colors.
Because the apple imagery appears throughout the design rather than only in the central baskets, the piece can also anchor a small grouping of Moss apple and harvest artwork.
Gift Ideas
Consider Baskets of Apples for someone with a connection to orchards, apple growing, rural heritage, traditional basketry, Amish-themed art, cooking, gardening, or autumn traditions.
Its harvest subject also makes it appropriate for a fall birthday, housewarming, Thanksgiving host gift, anniversary, or a gift for someone building a kitchen or dining-room art collection.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Baskets of Apples
Product ID: 11741
Year: 1993 — verified in current CGG inventory; existing copy says 1998 and should be corrected or reconciled
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Edition: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 8-3/8 x 10-7/8 inches — supplied
Paper size: 10-3/8 x 12-7/8 inches — supplied
Current price: $80 — verified
Condition: Never previously owned; mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied
Rare: Yes — verified CGG classification
CGG subjects: Amish Art; Folk Art; Men; Women
The approved inventory independently records Baskets of Apples as a 1993 Rare, Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph.
🎨 Fun Fact:
Baskets were not merely decorative objects in American rural life—they were made in different forms for specific jobs. The Smithsonian American Art Museum notes that traditional American basket forms included vessels designed for harvest and market, and its collection even contains a dedicated Swing Handle Apple Basket made from black ash. That history makes the multiple handled baskets in Baskets of Apples an interesting reminder that basket form and agricultural work have long been closely connected in American material culture.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes Baskets of Apples is how completely Moss carries its harvest subject through the design. Apples are not confined to one basket: two differently shaped baskets occupy the center, red fruit repeats around the outer edges, and branches and leaves curl around the figures to form an informal botanical frame. The dark elongated figures give the composition structure, while the red apples repeatedly pull the eye back toward the harvest. For collectors interested in Moss’s apple imagery, Amish subjects, baskets, or rural figures, this Rare-classified lithograph combines all four themes in one concentrated composition.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Baskets of Apples as Product ID 11741, a Rare, Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph currently priced at $80. The supplied gallery record identifies the available example as never previously owned and in mint condition, with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Continue Exploring
For closely related fine art:
- Bountiful Harvest provides an especially strong companion because it also centers two traditionally dressed figures carrying a large basket of apples.
- Baskets Galore extend the basket theme and are independently verified as Rare-classified Moss lithographs in CGG inventory.
- Baskets For Sale extend the basket theme and are independently verified as Rare-classified Moss lithographs in CGG inventory.
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- American Apples
- Amy’s Apples
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- Apple Gold Set
- Basket Boy and Girl Set
- Autumn Stroll
- Gathering Together
- Young Neighbors
Suggested Categories & Subjects:
“Gathered from the harvest.”
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