Description

Introduction

Ohio Homestead by P. Buckley Moss is a 1991 limited-edition, numbered lithograph centered on a substantial rural home in a quiet winter landscape. A blue farm wagon rests prominently in the snowy foreground while bare trees surround the warm-toned house and outbuildings, giving the composition a distinctly regional, rural character.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 48466, a current price of $135, and the work’s 1991 Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, Rare classification. CGG also categorizes the print under Architecture and Places. The supplied gallery record identifies the edition as 1,000 numbered prints and 25 artist’s proofs, in new, mint condition.

Story Behind the Artwork

Ohio Homestead is organized around three layers: the wagon in the foreground, the homestead at the center, and the pale winter landscape surrounding them.

The blue wagon is one of the most immediately recognizable elements. Its long, low body and four wheels stretch horizontally across the snowy foreground, creating a cool-colored counterpoint to the warmer architecture behind it.

The principal house stands at the center of the composition. Warm ochre and brick tones, a dark roof, central chimney, and multiple windows distinguish it from the surrounding snow. Lower structures extend to either side, suggesting a larger rural property rather than an isolated house.

Bare trees rise behind and around the buildings, their fine branches spreading into the muted sky.

Moss encloses most of the scene within a softly rounded, oval-like boundary. Instead of a conventional rectangular landscape, the image fades toward the surrounding paper, concentrating attention on the homestead and wagon.

Symbols & Meaning

The title establishes Ohio as the geographic identity of the work, while the house, outbuildings, wagon, snow, and open land connect the scene visually with rural life.

A homestead can evoke associations with home, roots, family history, and continuity, while an old farm wagon can suggest the practical work of an agricultural property. These are broad cultural associations rather than documented explanations of Moss’s intention.

No supplied artist statement establishes that the farmhouse symbolizes stability, that the wagon represents perseverance, or that Moss intended the work as a celebration of Midwestern family tradition. The stronger collector story is the one supported directly by the artwork: Ohio place identity joined with rural architecture and winter landscape.

Artistic Details

One of the most effective visual relationships in Ohio Homestead is the contrast between warm architecture and cool winter color.

The house uses ochre, muted orange, brick, and brown, while the snow and sky remain predominantly cream, gray, pale blue, and soft lavender. The blue wagon creates another cool accent but is considerably darker than the surrounding snow, allowing it to remain visible despite its relatively small scale.

The rounded image boundary is also important. It gives the scene the appearance of a self-contained view rather than an expansive landscape continuing beyond the picture.

Moss uses the dark horizontal line of the road or ground plane to anchor the buildings, while the wagon establishes a second horizontal line in the foreground. Against these, bare trees contribute delicate vertical and branching forms.

The composition is restrained, but its architecture, wagon, winter setting, and unusual framing give it a clearly defined visual identity.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Place & Memory

The title identifies Ohio directly, making geography integral to the work rather than incidental. For collectors with Ohio connections, the print can carry a particularly strong sense of regional place.

Supporting Master Collection: The American Home

The house and surrounding homestead structures dominate the composition, closely aligning with the collection’s emphasis on homes, domestic architecture, neighborhoods, and traditions of home.

Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America

The wagon, outbuildings, open ground, and homestead setting provide a clear agricultural and rural-life context.

Decorating Ideas

The 7-3/8 x 12-inch image offers a compact horizontal format that works well alone or as part of a larger Moss grouping.

Its cream, pale blue, gray, ochre, brick, and muted blue palette complements collected traditional and farmhouse interiors particularly well.

Consider Ohio Homestead for a living room, family room, study, hallway, kitchen or dining area, home office, or a gallery wall devoted to Ohio, winter, architecture, or rural life.

Gift Ideas

The title gives Ohio Homestead an obvious connection for Ohio residents, former Ohioans, families with Ohio roots, and collectors building a place-based P. Buckley Moss collection.

It can also be considered for farmhouse and rural-history enthusiasts, architectural-art collectors, or as a housewarming, retirement, holiday, anniversary, or family-heritage gift.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Ohio Homestead
Product ID: 48466
Year: 1991
Medium: Lithograph
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 7-3/8 x 12 inches — supplied
Paper size: 12-3/8 x 17 inches — supplied
Orientation: Horizontal
Current CGG price: $135
CGG Rare classification: Yes
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Supplied as included
Verified CGG subjects: Architecture; Places

Canada Goose Gallery independently verifies 1991, Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, Rare, Product ID 48466, and the current $135 price.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Ohio’s rural landscape owes part of its familiar patchwork appearance to a surveying system that was dramatically different from the irregular property boundaries found in many older Eastern settlements. Beginning in the late 18th century, federal surveys divided much of Ohio into systematically measured townships and sections before land was sold. That rectangular survey system helped shape later roads, farms, and property lines across large portions of the state. This fact concerns Ohio’s broader settlement landscape rather than the specific property pictured in Ohio Homestead, whose exact location and history have not been documented in the supplied materials.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Ohio Homestead is the way Moss gives a relatively small winter landscape several strong visual anchors. The warm central house immediately attracts the eye, but the blue four-wheeled wagon creates an equally memorable horizontal accent in the foreground. Bare trees then surround the architecture with a fine network of branches, while the softly rounded boundary isolates the entire scene against the paper. For collectors interested in Moss’s Ohio work, the title itself supplies an important regional connection, while CGG’s verified Architecture / Places taxonomy reinforces its place-based character. The gallery also explicitly classifies the 1991 lithograph as Rare, allowing that designation to be used factually without extending it into unsupported claims about demand, value, or future appreciation.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Ohio Homestead as Product ID 48466, a 1991 Limited Edition, Numbered Lithograph currently priced at $135 and classified by CGG as Rare.

Collectors can also explore related Ohio subjects through Canada Goose Gallery, including Ohio Heritage, Ohio Legacy, and other works connected with the state’s rural and historic landscape.

Continue Exploring

For related fine art, consider:

• Ohio Heritage — a verified 1990 limited, numbered lithograph classified by CGG as Rare.
• Ohio Legacy — a verified limited, numbered lithograph classified under Landscape, Mills, Places and Rare.
• Country Homestead — another verified CGG homestead subject.
  Verified ornament examples:
• Victorian Winter Ornament — $42 — the strongest architecture-and-winter companion; CGG verifies Architecture, Christmas, Snowmen, and Deer classifications.
• Winter Pond Ornament — $42 — connects the winter setting with verified Barn imagery.
• Winter at Meems Bottom Bridge Ornament — $50 — provides the strongest transportation connection through its verified Buggy, Horse, Historic Landmark, Bridge, and Deer classifications.

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• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
• P. Buckley Moss Rare Art
• The Collections Hub
• Architecture
• Historic Landmarks
• Places
• Ohio

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 “A quiet winter view of Ohio home and heritage.”