Description

Flowers on the Row Artist Proof by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Flowers on the Row Artist Proof by P. Buckley Moss is a 2000 limited-edition lithograph that brings together two distinctive subjects: a closely arranged row of colorful townhouses and a foreground garden of delicate flowers.

Moss gives each house its own personality through color—soft aqua, gray, peach, brick red, and deep charcoal—while repeating windows, doors, rooflines, and iron fencing establish an architectural rhythm across the composition. In front, loosely drawn flowers and grasses soften the orderly streetscape and give the image its title.

This example is one of only 25 Artist’s Proofs from an edition that also included 1,000 numbered prints. Canada Goose Gallery currently classifies the Artist Proof as Rare.

Story Behind the Artwork

Rather than isolating a single home, Flowers on the Row presents a neighborhood. Five adjoining houses stand shoulder to shoulder behind an iron fence, each structurally related to its neighbor but distinguished by its own façade and color.

The flowers provide an important contrast. Architecture is orderly and repetitive; the garden is loose and irregular. Straight rooflines, windows, doors, and fence pickets meet bending stems and scattered blossoms.

No documented location or artist statement has been supplied for the rowhouses, so the scene should not be attributed to a particular city or historic neighborhood without additional verification.

Symbols & Meaning

Rowhouses can suggest neighborhood, proximity, and shared community because individual homes become parts of a larger architectural whole. Flowers traditionally carry associations with beauty, growth, welcome, and the changing seasons.

Here, those two subjects complement each other especially well. The houses provide permanence and structure while the flowers introduce something living and changing.

These are visual interpretations rather than documented statements of Moss’s intention.

Artistic Details

The composition is built around repetition. Windows rise in orderly vertical rows, rooflines move across the upper portion of the image, and the dark iron fence creates another repeating pattern below.

Moss then disrupts that order with the foreground garden. Long stems rise at different angles, and small red and pale blossoms punctuate the lower edge of the scene.

Color gives the individual houses their identities without breaking the unity of the row. Canada Goose Gallery records a palette of mauve, umber, aqua, ash gray, black, charcoal gray, dove gray, moss green, peach, pearl white, and rose.

The result is both architectural and botanical: a neighborhood portrait softened by the life growing in front of it.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: The American Home

The strongest collection connection is the home itself. Unlike Moss landscapes in which a building appears in the distance, Flowers on the Row makes domestic architecture the principal subject. The individual façades also create a larger story about neighboring homes and community.

Supporting Theme: Floral & Garden Art

Flowers are sufficiently important to appear in the title and foreground, making your established Floral artwork grouping an excellent internal-link destination. Canada Goose Gallery’s inventory includes a substantial range of floral works, giving this page a useful bridge from architecture into Moss’s botanical subjects.

Decorating Ideas

The combination of architectural lines and muted color makes Flowers on the Row Artist Proof versatile for Traditional, Cottage, Collected Home, Transitional, and urban-inspired interiors.

It would work especially well in an entry, living room, study, hallway, dining area, or gallery wall. The aqua and peach façades offer subtle color without dominating a room, while black and charcoal architectural details make the image easy to coordinate with darker framing.

Collectors could also pair it with another Moss rowhouse or architectural work on one side and a floral print on the other, visually repeating the two subjects contained within this artwork.

Gift Ideas

Flowers on the Row Artist Proof has several natural gift connections: a new homeowner, gardener, architecture enthusiast, someone who grew up in a rowhouse neighborhood, or a collector interested in Moss Artist Proofs.

It could also be especially meaningful as a housewarming gift because its subject combines the idea of home with a garden in bloom.

About the Edition

Flowers on the Row Artist Proof was issued in 2000 as a limited-edition lithograph on paper.

Numbered edition: 1,000 
Artist’s proofs: 25
This example: Artist Proof
Image size: 7 1/16 × 8¾ inches
Paper size: 9 1/16 × 10¾ inches
Orientation: Square
Condition: Mint condition and comes with Certificate of authenticity. 
Rare classification: Verified for this Artist Proof

The current Canada Goose Gallery record confirms the 2000 date, lithograph medium, Artist Proof status, Rare classification, edition size of 25 Artist’s Proofs, dimensions, square orientation, and Floral/Rowhouses subjects.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Rowhouses became an ingenious answer to a basic urban problem: how to provide individual homes where land was limited. By placing houses side by side and allowing neighboring residences to share walls, builders could fit more homes along a street while still giving families their own entrances and living spaces. Rows of similar façades eventually became defining features of many historic American neighborhoods. This architectural fact concerns rowhouses generally; no specific city or historic row has been verified as the subject of Flowers on the Row.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Flowers on the Row Artist Proof is the interplay between repetition and individuality. The houses share a common rhythm of narrow façades, windows, rooflines, and fencing, yet Moss differentiates them through color and architectural details. The irregular flowers and grasses in the foreground then soften that structured pattern. For collectors, the work offers two strong avenues into Moss’s art—her treatment of American homes and architecture and her use of flowers and gardens—while this particular example adds the documented distinction of belonging to the 25-print Artist Proof edition.

Continue Exploring

If the rowhouses first caught your attention, continue exploring Moss’s architectural subjects.

• Beauty on the Row
• City Blossoms 
• Graced by Spring
• Just Visiting
• Row House Reflections
• Row Houses Painting
• The Terrace Etching

If it was the garden that drew you in, visit:

• P. Buckley Moss Floral Artwork Collection. The gallery inventory contains excellent individual candidates including:
• Flowers From My Heart
• Flowers of Summer
• Floral Rhapsody
• Floral Whimsey
• Fluorescent Floral
• Flowers on Red
• Purple Passion Artist Proof
• Purple Vase Artist Proof

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“Every home adds its color to the neighborhood.”