Description

Mother And Child  Wall Hanging by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Mother And Child Wall Hanging by P. Buckley Moss brings Moss’s mother-and-infant imagery into an unusual textile format. At the center is an original image painted on fabric: a mother bends toward the infant held securely in her arms, rendered primarily through graceful gray linework against pale cloth. The painted panel is incorporated into a large quilted wall hanging framed by geometric bands of deep navy, cream, gray, and patterned fabric.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies this exact work as Product ID 74815, currently priced at $4,000, and classifies it as Painting, Sketch Original, and Textile, with Original Art status and verified Children, Religious, and Women categories.

The supplied gallery history further identifies the central fabric artwork as hand-painted by P. Buckley Moss, with the completed wall hanging coming from a private collection and originally associated with fundraising for the P. Buckley Moss Foundation.

Story Behind the Artwork

The artwork operates on two levels: Moss’s central mother-and-child image and the textile construction surrounding it.

The mother occupies most of the painted panel. Her head bends toward the infant while the broad curve of her arms creates a cradle around the small figure. A veil or head covering sweeps around her head and shoulders, producing a large enclosing contour that visually echoes the embrace below.

Rather than adding extensive color to the figures, the central panel relies primarily on line. This restraint allows the stitching in the surrounding pale fabric to remain visible and makes the transition from drawing to textile especially interesting.

Around the central image, multiple borders transform the painted fabric into a larger textile composition. Narrow gray framing, cream bands, densely patterned dark fabric, and a broad navy outer border create successive layers around mother and child.

A small geometric quilt block at lower left interrupts the otherwise continuous borders and gives the textile its own identity rather than functioning merely as a frame.

Symbols & Meaning

The mother-and-child relationship is unmistakable visually, while CGG’s independent classifications of Women, Children, and Religious provide useful context for interpreting the subject.

The image can be read within the long tradition of Madonna and Child imagery, particularly because of the veiled maternal figure and CGG’s Religious classification. At the same time, its gestures—bowed head, cradled infant, enclosing arms—are recognizable expressions of maternal care even without a specifically religious reading.

The quilt adds another layer of association. Quilts have long been connected with domestic life, practical warmth, handwork, family, and community craft. In this particular piece, those associations complement the mother-and-child subject especially naturally.

These are cultural and visual associations rather than documented statements of Moss’s intended symbolism.

Artistic Details

What distinguishes Mother And Child Wall Hanging is the meeting of drawn line, painted textile, piecing, and quilting.

Moss’s central figure is rendered with economical contours. The mother’s tilted head, veil, shoulders, arms, hands, and the infant’s wrapped body are established without a detailed setting.

The textile artist then uses stitching to introduce another system of lines. In the pale central field, quilted lines radiate and travel behind the painted figures, creating texture without obscuring Moss’s image.

The surrounding fabrics become progressively darker as they move outward: pale central cloth gives way to gray, cream, patterned dark fabric, and finally the wide navy outer border. This layered progression keeps the viewer’s attention centered on the light mother-and-child panel.

The small pieced block near the lower-left corner introduces squares and right angles into a composition otherwise dominated by the mother’s long curves.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Family & Legacy

This is the strongest editorial assignment because the work centers the relationship between mother and infant, while CGG independently categorizes the piece under both Women and Children. The textile format also gives the work a natural connection to family handcraft and objects made to endure across generations.

Supporting Master Collection: Faith That Endures

CGG independently classifies the wall hanging under Religious, and the mother-and-child composition visually recalls Madonna-and-Child imagery.

Neither placement was found as an explicit exact-title listing in the retrieved Master Collection materials, so these should be treated as well-supported editorial assignments rather than documented curator placements.

Decorating Ideas

Because this is a large textile wall hanging, it should be considered differently from a conventionally framed watercolor or print.

A bedroom, family room, quiet sitting area, nursery, chapel, stair landing, or large feature wall can provide enough space for both the central artwork and its broad quilted borders to be appreciated.

The navy, cream, gray, and muted metallic-looking patterned fabrics work especially well with traditional, collected, transitional, and textile-rich interiors.

Display planning should also take preservation into account. Textile works benefit from thoughtful hanging support and protection from prolonged direct sunlight.

Gift Ideas

The mother-and-infant subject makes this work relevant to significant family occasions such as a new baby, Mother’s Day, or a major family milestone.

Because the supplied history connects the piece with charitable fundraising and the P. Buckley Moss Foundation, it may also have particular interest for a collector focused on Moss’s broader community and educational legacy—once that specific provenance is fully documented.

About the Original

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Mother And Child Wall Hanging
Product ID: 74815
Year: 2020 — supplied information
Medium: Hand-painted fabric incorporated into a quilted textile wall hanging — hand-painted detail supplied; Textile / Original Art independently verified
Edition type: One-of-a-kind original — supplied
Orientation: Approximately square
Current CGG price: $4,000
Condition: Mint — supplied information
Provenance: Private collection — supplied information
Signature: Hand-signed by P. Buckley Moss — supplied information
Additional signature: Existing description states the quilt designer also signed the piece
Wall hanging size: Not supplied

CGG independently verifies Product ID 74815, $4,000 current price, P. Buckley Moss authorship, Original Art status, Painting / Sketch Original / Textile classification, Large attribute, and Children / Religious / Women categories.

🎨 Fun Fact:

A quilt’s stitching is not merely what holds its layers together—it can become part of the design itself. Quilters call this decorative use of stitched lines quilting, and those lines may follow shapes, form repeated patterns, or travel freely across open areas of fabric. In Mother And Child Wall Hanging, this becomes especially interesting because two kinds of line coexist: Moss’s drawn contours define the mother and infant, while the quilted lines travel through the surrounding pale textile. The result lets drawing and textile construction share the same visual language without requiring the stitching to imitate Moss’s image.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

Mother And Child Wall Hanging differs substantially from a conventional Moss original because the artwork extends beyond the painted image itself. The mother and infant occupy a restrained central fabric panel, while stitching, pieced borders, contrasting fabrics, and the small geometric block at lower left turn that image into a much larger textile composition. CGG’s inventory specifically classifies the work as Textile and Original Art and gives it a Large attribute, distinguishing its format from Moss’s works on paper. Its supplied private-collection and charitable-fundraising history could add an additional documented story to the work, but those provenance details should be confirmed before they are presented as established history.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies Mother And Child Wall Hanging as Product ID 74815, an original P. Buckley Moss textile work currently priced at $4,000.

The work provides an unusual opportunity to explore Moss imagery outside conventional paper-based prints and paintings, combining her central artwork with the material and stitched structure of a large wall textile.

Continue Exploring

For another textile-based Moss work:

• Fledgling Quilted Wall Hanging — $4,000, Product ID 74803, is independently verified as a one-of-a-kind P. Buckley Moss textile work.

For a direct mother-and-child fine-art comparison:

• Mother and Child Etching provides the same broad relationship in a very different medium.
• Madonna Etching provides a religious mother-and-infant comparison.
• Madonna With Babe Painting is another verified CGG mother-and-child destination.

Verified ornament examples:

• Madonna Ornament — direct Madonna-and-child subject pathway.
• And The Greatest Of These Ornament — verified CGG ornament destination with a family/faith pathway; confirm exact imagery before describing it as a direct visual companion.

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• Original Art
• Textile
• Children
• Religious
• Women
• Mother and Baby

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 “Where Moss linework meets the language of quilting.”