Description
Homestead Ride by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Homestead Ride by P. Buckley Moss is a 1990 limited-edition lithograph bringing together several recurring subjects in Moss’s rural imagery: children, a horse-drawn vehicle, domestic architecture, and the countryside. Two young passengers ride past a pale two-story house while a gray horse carries the scene across a foreground filled with delicate pink flowers.
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies Homestead Ride as Product ID 2650, currently priced at $150, and verifies its 1990 date and Rare, Limited Edition, Lithograph status. CGG categorizes the work under Amish Art, Architecture, Children, Folk Art, Horse, and Women.
The supplied gallery record further identifies the print as a numbered edition of 1,000 prints with 25 artist’s proofs, in new, mint condition.
Story Behind the Artwork
The title Homestead Ride directs attention to both parts of the composition: the journey and the home.
A light-colored horse pulls a four-wheeled open vehicle across the foreground. Two young figures sit together as passengers, their small scale contrasting with the horse and substantial house behind them.
The architecture occupies much of the background. Moss gives the pale house a broad front porch, central entrance, multiple windows, dark roof, and chimney. Instead of surrounding it with extensive landscape detail, she places the building within a softly washed field of pink.
That restraint allows the horse, children, and house to function almost like the principal characters of a compact visual story.
Symbols & Meaning
Homestead Ride naturally invites associations with childhood, home, transportation, and rural memory, but those themes should remain interpretive rather than being presented as Moss’s stated message.
The house may evoke security, familiarity, or home for some viewers. A horse-drawn ride may suggest an earlier pace of rural life, while the young passengers can prompt memories of childhood experiences and family outings.
There is no supplied artist statement, however, establishing that Moss intended the horse and carriage to symbolize “a slower, more intentional way of life” or that the house represents comfort and stability. The artwork is more effectively described through what Moss actually places together: children in motion before a substantial country home.
Artistic Details
The composition is notable for its soft-edged, almost vignette-like presentation. Instead of enclosing the scene within a hard rectangular boundary, Moss allows the pink atmospheric field to fade into the surrounding paper.
The house supplies the architectural structure, with straight walls, rooflines, porch posts, windows, and chimney establishing a stable geometric backdrop.
Across that structure moves the horse and vehicle. Thin wheels, reins, harness lines, and the horse’s extended legs create a horizontal rhythm across the lower part of the image.
Pink is the unifying color. It appears in the broad atmospheric background and returns in the flowers scattered through the foreground. Against that warmth, the gray horse, pale house, dark roof, and fine black outlines remain clearly legible.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Childhood & Storytelling
The two young passengers give the artwork its strongest narrative quality. The ride feels like a moment within a larger childhood story rather than simply an architectural portrait.
Supporting Master Collection: The American Home
The substantial two-story house and porch are central to the composition, making domestic architecture an important secondary theme. The approved Master Collection framework defines The American Home around homes, porches, everyday life, traditions, and domestic architecture.
Supporting Master Collection: Animals & Companions
The horse is a prominent visual subject and is independently included in CGG’s verified product taxonomy.
Decorating Ideas
With an image measuring approximately 11-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches, Homestead Ride has an almost square format that makes it adaptable to both individual display and gallery-wall arrangements.
The pale pink, cream, gray, and muted green palette can work particularly well in collected traditional, cottage, farmhouse, and softly colored interiors.
Consider it for a bedroom, family room, hallway, reading area, study, or a grouping devoted to childhood, horses, homes, or rural life.
Gift Ideas
Homestead Ride can be particularly meaningful for horse enthusiasts, families with rural roots, collectors of Moss’s childhood imagery, and people drawn to historic forms of transportation and country homes.
The combination of children, horse, and home also makes it suitable to consider for a birthday, housewarming, family milestone, or gift commemorating childhood memories.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Homestead Ride
Product ID: 2650
Year: 1990
Medium: Lithograph
Edition type: Limited edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 11-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches — supplied
Paper size: 16-1/4 x 16-1/2 inches — supplied
Orientation: Nearly square
Current CGG price: $150
Rare classification: Yes — verified by CGG
CGG subjects: Amish Art; Architecture; Children; Folk Art; Horse; Women
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Supplied as included
🎨 Fun Fact:
Before automobiles transformed everyday transportation, the familiar four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle existed in many forms rather than as one universal “carriage.” Design could vary according to passenger needs, road conditions, local practice, and whether a vehicle was intended for work or personal travel. Wheels, suspension, seating, shafts or poles, and body construction all helped determine how a particular vehicle functioned. That makes historical horse-drawn transportation a surprisingly specialized field of study—and a useful reminder that the vehicle in Homestead Ride is best described from what can actually be seen rather than assigned a precise historic type without documentation.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes Homestead Ride is the unusually compact relationship among its three principal subjects. The horse and vehicle stretch horizontally across the foreground, two young passengers provide the narrative center, and the large pale house rises immediately behind them. Moss then surrounds the scene with a softly fading pink field rather than a highly detailed landscape, giving the figures and architecture an almost storybook-like focus. For collectors interested in the overlap among Moss’s childhood, horse, and home imagery, this single composition brings all three together. CGG additionally verifies the work as a 1990 Rare-category limited-edition lithograph, while the supplied record identifies the edition as 1,000 numbered prints plus 25 artist’s proofs.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Homestead Ride as Product ID 2650, a 1990 Rare-category limited-edition lithograph currently priced at $150.
Its verified combination of Architecture, Children, Horse, Amish Art, and Folk Art also makes it easy to connect with several established collecting directions without relying on unsupported claims about popularity or future value.
Continue Exploring
For related fine art, Homestead Sleigh Ride provides an especially natural companion, continuing the combination of horse-drawn travel and homestead imagery.
Verified ornament examples:
- Country Ride Ornament — $30 — the strongest ornament companion, with verified Horse, Bridge, and Historic Landmark classifications.
- Country Meadow Ornament — $42 — connects through Horse, Barn, Nature, and Animal imagery.
- Spirit Horse Ornament — $42 — a direct horse-subject cross-sell.
Suggested Categories & Subjects:
- P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
- P. Buckley Moss Rare Art
- The Collections Hub
- Children
- Sleigh
- Horse Collection
- Architecture
- Amish Art
- Folk Art
“A country ride through childhood.”
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