Description

Lancaster Ride by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Lancaster Ride by P. Buckley Moss is a rare 1991 limited, numbered edition lithograph depicting a horse-drawn buggy traveling through the rural landscape of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Within the circular composition, a dark horse and buggy cross the foreground while additional buggies, farm buildings, bare trees, and water extend the scene into the distance.

The composition connects several subjects long associated with this region—horse-drawn transportation, Pennsylvania farm architecture, and the rural landscape—while its restrained cream, parchment, rust, gray, and moss-green palette gives the scene a quiet late-season character.

This print also has documented collector history: Lancaster Ride was published for the P. Buckley Moss Collectors’ Convention held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1991.

Story Behind the Artwork

The title and Canada Goose Gallery records firmly locate the scene in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Moss organizes the landscape as a journey: the principal horse and buggy move across the lower portion of the image, while another buggy appears farther back along the road. Buildings rise beyond them, turning the work into a broader portrait of rural transportation and settlement rather than simply a horse study.

Canada Goose Gallery currently categorizes the artwork under Amish Art, Barns, Buggy, Duck, Geese, Historic Landmarks, Horses, and Places. Those categories support the Lancaster and Amish-country context, although the exact farm, bridge, or buildings shown have not been identified in the supplied documentation.

The 1991 convention publication history gives the Lancaster setting additional relevance. This was artwork connected directly with a collector gathering in the same Pennsylvania region named by the print.

Symbols & Meaning

The horse and buggy can suggest continuity, purposeful travel, and traditional transportation, while the farm buildings connect the scene with agricultural life. Water and birds introduce the natural environment into the rural narrative.

Because the image includes several buggies at different distances, the composition may also suggest movement through a community rather than an isolated journey.

These are visual interpretations. No documented artist statement has been supplied assigning a specific symbolic meaning to the horse, buggy, birds, bridge, or buildings.

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Artistic Details

The circular vignette is one of the most distinctive features of Lancaster Ride. Moss contains a surprisingly broad landscape within that rounded field, creating the feeling of looking into a self-contained rural world.

The foreground horse and buggy provide the strongest movement. Their dark silhouette contrasts with the pale roadway and surrounding earth tones, immediately directing attention toward the traveling figure.

Behind them, Moss builds depth through repeating roads, distant buggies, architecture, trees, and changes in scale. The farm buildings at the top of the composition provide a strong destination for the eye after it follows the road through the scene.

Canada Goose Gallery records the palette as pale brown, ash gray, black, charcoal gray, cream, dove gray, moss green, parchment, peach, pearl white, rust, sea-foam green, and tan. These muted colors reinforce the rural atmosphere without overpowering the linework.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America

The horses, buggies, farm architecture, road, and agricultural landscape make this the strongest thematic placement. The artwork presents rural life as an interconnected setting rather than isolating one animal or building.

Supporting Master Collection: Place & Memory

The documented Lancaster, Pennsylvania location and 1991 convention connection make place especially important to this work. It can appeal directly to collectors who visited Lancaster, attended the convention, traveled Pennsylvania Dutch Country, or have personal ties to the region.

Supporting Master Collection: Animals & Companions

The horse is the principal foreground subject and gives the artwork its motion, making the Horse Collection and broader Animals & Companions pathway natural secondary links.

Supporting Master Collection: Rare & Remarkable

Canada Goose Gallery explicitly classifies Lancaster Ride as Rare, providing a supported collector pathway without implying market demand or future value. The approved inventory lists it as Product ID 73056, a 1991 Rare limited, numbered lithograph currently priced at $300.

Decorating Ideas

The warm neutral palette makes Lancaster Ride well suited to Americana, Traditional, Farmhouse, Rustic, Country, and Collected Home interiors.

Its near-square format can work comfortably in a study, living room, dining room, hallway, entry, or office. The artwork would also fit particularly well within a grouping devoted to Pennsylvania, horses, Amish-country imagery, or early Moss rural scenes.

A dark wood or black frame can echo the horse and carriage, while warmer wood tones can reinforce the parchment and rust colors of the landscape.

Gift Ideas

Lancaster Ride is a natural gift for a horse lover, Pennsylvania native, Lancaster County traveler, collector of Amish-associated artwork, or someone interested in rural American history.

Its documented 1991 P. Buckley Moss Collectors’ Convention connection also makes it particularly meaningful for collectors who attended the Lancaster event or collect convention-published Moss works.

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About the 1991 Lancaster Convention

Canada Goose Gallery documents that Lancaster Ride was published for the P. Buckley Moss Collectors’ Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1991.

That publication history should be featured prominently because it gives the work a specific and verifiable collector context. Rather than simply being another Lancaster subject, the print is tied directly to a Moss collector event held in the region represented by its title.

About the Edition

Lancaster Ride was issued in 1991 as a rare limited, numbered lithograph on paper.

Edition size: 3,000 according to the current Canada Goose Gallery structured product record
Artist’s proofs: Not verified in the supplied or current public record
Image size: 12¼ × 13 9/16 inches
Paper size: 14¼ × 15 9/16 inches
Orientation: Square
Condition: New, mint condition
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Current gallery price: $300
Product ID: 73056
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The current Canada Goose Gallery product page verifies the 1991 date, Rare classification, lithograph medium, numbered edition, edition size of 3,000, image and paper dimensions, square orientation, Lancaster location, and current $300 price. The approved CGG inventory independently confirms Product ID 73056, $300 price, 1991 date, and Rare limited-numbered lithograph classification.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Lancaster County’s association with horse-powered farming is more complex than many visitors realize. Pennsylvania historic-agriculture research found that even into the 1950s, horse power was not limited to Amish farms: many non-Amish Lancaster County farms still used horses as well. The county’s agricultural history developed along a spectrum, with highly mechanized farms existing alongside much more traditional methods. That makes the horse-drawn world associated with Lancaster more than a picturesque tourist image—it reflects a transportation and farming tradition that remained part of the region well into the modern era.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Lancaster Ride is the way place, transportation, and collector history intersect. Moss does not give us a single horse-and-buggy portrait; she places several buggies within a layered Lancaster landscape of farms, roadway, water, birds, and architecture. The circular format draws those elements together, while the documented 1991 Lancaster Collectors’ Convention publication gives this particular print a concrete historical relationship to Moss collecting. For someone building a Lancaster or Pennsylvania group, that convention connection makes Lancaster Ride especially useful as an anchor work without requiring unsupported claims about popularity or value.

Continue Exploring

Continue your journey through Lancaster County with more P. Buckley Moss artwork. Discover Lancaster Morn for another horse-and-buggy farm scene, explore Lancaster Heritage for a broader view of Pennsylvania architecture and place, or see Lancaster Spring Artist Proof for another seasonal interpretation of the region. You can also continue into our P. Buckley Moss Horse Art and Rare Prints collections.

• Lancaster Morn – featuring Horse, Barn, Buggy, and Duck
• Lancaster Heritage continues the Pennsylvania-place connection through architecture, horses, men, and places.
• Lancaster Spring Artist Proof gives another Lancaster title while changing both the season and edition type.

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
• P. Buckley Moss Rare Art
• Amish Art
• Horses
• Buggies
• Barns
• Pennsylvania
• Historic Landmarks & Places

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery specializes in P. Buckley Moss artwork and maintains detailed records on edition type, condition, subject, and collector history. Lancaster Ride is offered in new, mint condition with a Certificate of Authenticity and carries the additional documented distinction of having been published for the 1991 P. Buckley Moss Collectors’ Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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 “A Lancaster journey with collector history.”