Description

Bountiful Harvest by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Bountiful Harvest by P. Buckley Moss is a 1988 limited-edition lithograph that brings together several enduring subjects in Moss’s work: rural life, harvest, traditional dress, architecture, and shared work. Two elongated figures carry a large basket filled with red fruit in front of a white farmhouse, while the cool blue-green landscape gives the composition a crisp seasonal character.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 4446, a current price of $175, and the classifications Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, and Rare. It is also categorized under Amish Art, Folk Art, Men, and Women.

Story Behind the Artwork

At the center of Bountiful Harvest is an act of cooperation.

A woman and man walk together carrying a large woven basket filled with red fruit. Their dark clothing and tall, simplified figures create strong vertical shapes, while the basket forms a colorful focal point between them.

Behind the pair stands a substantial white farmhouse with chimneys and multiple windows. A fence and lightly rendered rural landscape extend behind the figures, placing their activity within a working countryside rather than an isolated portrait setting.

The composition is framed by a softly textured arch of blue-green color. This curved boundary gives the scene the quality of a vignette while keeping the farmhouse, figures, and harvest visually connected.

Rather than concentrating solely on autumn scenery, Moss places people and the work of harvest at the center of the image.

Symbols & Meaning

A filled harvest basket has long provided a natural visual association with abundance, provision, work, and gratitude. The fact that two people carry the basket together can also suggest cooperation and shared responsibility.

Those associations make Bountiful Harvest particularly appropriate for an autumn or Thanksgiving setting, but they should remain cultural and editorial interpretations. There is no supplied artist statement establishing that Moss intended the basket to symbolize prosperity, faith, marriage, or gratitude.

Likewise, the figures’ dress supports CGG’s verified Amish Art classification, but their values, beliefs, relationship to one another, and individual identities should not be inferred from the image.

Artistic Details

Moss builds the composition around a carefully controlled contrast between cool surroundings and warm harvest color.

Pale blue, blue-green, gray, white, and black dominate the farmhouse, landscape, and clothing. Against those quieter tones, the red fruit and warm bands of the basket immediately draw the eye toward the center.

The figures display Moss’s characteristic elongated proportions. The man’s long black trousers and the woman’s full dark skirt create strong vertical forms, while the wide basket establishes a horizontal bridge between them.

The farmhouse supplies another layer of geometry through its windows, roofline, chimneys, and long façade. Behind the simplified figures, those architectural details establish a sense of place without overwhelming the harvest story.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Harvest & Thanksgiving

This is the strongest assignment. CGG defines Harvest & Thanksgiving around gratitude, abundance, autumn traditions, harvests, farm life, barns, and related seasonal subjects. Bountiful Harvest places the gathered crop and the people carrying it at the center of the composition.

Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America

The farmhouse, harvest work, traditional rural figures, basket, and agricultural setting make rural life central to the scene.

Supporting Master Collection: The American Home

The substantial farmhouse creates a secondary connection to home and domestic rural architecture.

Decorating Ideas

The combination of blue-green, white, black, muted red, and natural basket tones makes Bountiful Harvest especially suitable for traditional, farmhouse, country, and collected Americana interiors.

Its nearly square image format works naturally in a kitchen, dining room, breakfast area, living room, entryway, or harvest-season display. The food-and-harvest subject gives it particular relevance near spaces where family and guests gather for meals.

For seasonal decorating, it offers an autumn story without relying on pumpkins or bright orange foliage, allowing it to transition easily from early fall through Thanksgiving.

Gift Ideas

Bountiful Harvest may be especially meaningful for rural-heritage families, Amish-art collectors, cooks and gardeners, collectors of harvest imagery, and those who enjoy Moss’s traditional rural subjects.

Gift occasions could include Thanksgiving, a fall birthday, housewarming, wedding or anniversary, retirement, or a gift for someone whose family memories center on farms, orchards, gardens, or annual harvest traditions.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Bountiful Harvest
Product ID: 4446
Year: 1988 — verified
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 11-1/8 x 10 inches — supplied
Paper size: 16-1/8 x 15 inches — supplied
Orientation: Vertical / near-square image
Current price: $175 — verified
Condition: New, mint / never previously owned — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied
Rare: Verified CGG classification
CGG subjects: Amish Art; Folk Art; Men; Women

Canada Goose Gallery independently verifies the 1988 date, Product ID 4446, $175 current price, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Numbered Edition, and Rare designations.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Apples have an unusual relationship with ripening: they are climacteric fruit, meaning they continue to ripen after being picked because of changes driven in part by the plant hormone ethylene. That characteristic helped make apples especially practical as a stored harvest crop when suitable varieties were kept under cool conditions. Modern controlled-atmosphere storage extends the principle much further by carefully managing temperature and the gases surrounding the fruit. This fact concerns apples generally; although the red fruit in Bountiful Harvest visually resembles apples and the supplied gallery description identifies them as apples, the fruit species is not independently specified in the retrieved CGG inventory record.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Bountiful Harvest is the way Moss makes the basket the physical and visual link between two figures. Neither person carries the harvest alone; their elongated dark forms flank a rounded basket filled with warm red color, while the white farmhouse provides a quieter architectural backdrop. The contrast makes the harvest itself the center of the composition without requiring a large field or orchard. For collectors interested in Moss’s rural figures, this 1988 Rare-classified lithograph also brings human activity, architecture, traditional dress, and seasonal subject matter into one compact composition.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Bountiful Harvest as Product ID 4446, a 1988 Rare, Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph, currently priced at $175. The supplied gallery record identifies the available print as never previously owned and in mint condition, with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Continue Exploring

Collectors interested in the harvest and basket themes can continue with CGG works such as:

• Baskets of Apples
• Baskets Galore
• Baskets for Sale
• Harvest Morn
• Joyful Harvest
• Golden Autumn Artist Proof

Ornament examples:

• P. Buckley Moss Ornaments

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
• P. Buckley Moss Rare Art
• The Collections Hub
• Amish Art
• Fall & Harvest Art

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 “Gathering the harvest, together.”