Description

Horse And House Painting by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Horse And House Painting by P. Buckley Moss is a one-of-a-kind original work on paper centered on one of Moss’s recurring animal subjects: the horse. The animal stands almost directly facing the viewer, filling the vertical composition, while a red-brick house, pale roof, lightly drawn trees, and softly blended landscape recede behind it.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies the work as Product ID 38194, currently priced at $3,700, and classifies it as Painting, Paper, Original Art, with the subjects Animal, Horse, and Nature. The supplied gallery record further identifies it as an original watercolor that has never previously been sold, never framed, and never used to produce an edition of prints.

Story Behind the Artwork

The horse is unquestionably the center of Horse And House Painting. Rather than showing the animal in profile, under saddle, or moving across a landscape, Moss positions it frontally and allows its long face, upright ears, narrow legs, and direct gaze to command the composition.

The house is deliberately secondary. Its red-brick façade and steep pale roof emerge from the left side of the landscape, partially obscured by the horse and atmospheric surroundings. Fine linear trees occupy the middle distance without competing for attention.

Color supplies much of the painting’s atmosphere. Golden orange fills the upper background before moving through rose, pink, lavender, and touches of cool blue-gray lower in the composition. Against this field of color, the horse is defined with economical dark lines and warm brown washes.

Because no edition was produced from this image according to the supplied gallery record, the composition exists as the original artwork rather than as the source for a corresponding numbered print edition.

Symbols & Meaning

Horses carry many cultural associations—including strength, movement, independence, companionship, and freedom—but no documented artist statement supplied for this painting establishes one of those meanings as Moss’s intention.

Likewise, the house can evoke ideas of home or rootedness for a viewer, but it should not be stated that Moss deliberately paired the horse and house to symbolize a balance between “wild freedom” and “the warmth of home.”

The strongest interpretation comes directly from the composition: a monumental horse occupies the immediate foreground while human architecture recedes into an atmospheric landscape behind it.

Artistic Details

The frontal viewpoint is one of this painting’s most distinctive characteristics.

The horse is nearly symmetrical at first glance, but subtle differences in its legs, body contour, ears, eyes, and facial markings keep the figure from becoming rigid. Its head is relatively small compared with the elongated body and legs, emphasizing height within the vertical format.

Moss also creates depth through contrast. The horse has some of the darkest and most deliberate linear definition in the painting. By comparison, the trees are lightly drawn and the surrounding color transitions are diffuse.

The house provides the composition’s principal architectural geometry. Its pale angular roof and brick-red wall contrast with the organic outline of the horse.

Perhaps most striking is the background color progression: golden yellow and orange above, rose and lavender through the middle and lower landscape, and cooler blue-gray near the edges. These colors create atmosphere without requiring the scene to be identified as either sunrise or sunset.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Animals & Companions

The horse is the dominant subject, and CGG’s approved inventory explicitly classifies the painting under Animal and Horse.

Supporting Master Collection: The American Home

The house is visually secondary but substantial enough to create a meaningful relationship between animal, architecture, and landscape.

No third Master Collection is necessary. The painting is stronger when its classification remains focused rather than forcing it into an additional collection.

Decorating Ideas

The painting’s vertical format and unusually warm palette make it especially effective as a single focal original rather than one element in a crowded wall arrangement.

Its gold, terracotta, rose, lavender, brown, and pale blue tones can complement collected traditional, rustic, equestrian, and contemporary interiors.

Consider it for a living room, study, library, entryway, bedroom, or equestrian-themed space. Because the work is supplied as never framed, the eventual framing treatment can be selected to respond to both the paper and the surrounding interior.

Gift Ideas

As an original horse painting, this work has particular relevance for an equestrian household, horse owner, longtime Moss collector, or collector building a group of P. Buckley Moss original paintings.

Its one-of-a-kind status also makes it appropriate to consider for a milestone anniversary, retirement, significant birthday, or family legacy gift without making claims about future financial value.

About the Edition

This work is not an edition.

It is supplied as a one-of-a-kind original watercolor on paper that was never used to create a print edition.

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Current gallery title: Horse And House Painting
Product ID: 38194
Artwork type: Original painting
Support: Paper
Original art: Yes — verified by CGG inventory
Inventory classifications: Animal; Horse; Nature
Image size: 8-3/16 x 12-1/8 inches — supplied
Orientation: Vertical
Current CGG price: $3,700
Signature: “P Buckley Moss,” lower right — supplied
Condition: Mint — supplied
Framing: Never framed — supplied
Previous ownership/sale: Never previously sold — supplied
Print edition produced: No — supplied

🎨 Fun Fact:

A horse can see an exceptionally broad area around its body because its eyes are positioned on the sides of its head. That arrangement provides extensive peripheral vision useful to an animal whose ancestors depended on detecting potential danger across open landscapes. It also creates a particularly interesting artistic challenge when a horse is viewed almost directly from the front: instead of relying on the familiar long profile of the equine head, the artist must establish character through the spacing of the eyes, upright ears, muzzle, facial line, and symmetry of the pose. This fact concerns equine anatomy generally rather than a documented intention behind this specific Moss painting.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Horse And House Painting from a more conventional equestrian scene is Moss’s decision to place the horse almost directly in front of the viewer. The animal occupies most of the composition’s height, while the house and delicate trees are pushed into an atmospheric background of gold, rose, lavender, and blue-gray. That scale relationship makes the horse the unmistakable subject rather than simply one component of a rural landscape. CGG’s inventory confirms the work as Original Art on Paper and classifies it specifically under Animal, Horse, and Nature. The supplied record adds another meaningful distinction: this original was never used to produce a print edition.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Horse And House Painting as Product ID 38194, an original painting on paper currently priced at $3,700.

The supplied gallery history records that the watercolor has never previously been sold, never framed, and never reproduced as an edition, giving a prospective collector unusually specific information about the artwork’s gallery history without making unsupported rarity or investment claims.

Continue Exploring

Collectors interested in this original can continue through verified CGG horse paintings including:

• Gray Horse in Trees Painting
• Horse Full View Painting
• Colorful Horse Portrait Painting
• Horse and Landscape Painting

Verified ornament example:

• Spirit Horse Ornament — $42 — Product ID 55958, verified as a limited, numbered porcelain ornament with Animal / Horse classifications.

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• P. Buckley Moss Original Paintings
• Horse
• Animal
• Nature

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 “Face to face with the horse.”