Description

Introduction

Our Christmas Friend by P. Buckley Moss is a 1999 Rare, limited, numbered lithograph centered on one of winter’s simplest childhood pleasures: building a snowman. Two bundled children gather around their oversized snowy companion while a country house, stone wall, bare trees, and horse-drawn buggy extend the scene into a quiet rural landscape.

A sweeping red scarf gives the snowman both personality and movement, standing out against the muted blue-green, cream, and white palette. Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory confirms Our Christmas Friend as Product ID 2855, a 1999 Rare, limited, numbered lithograph currently priced at $145.00, with verified Christmas and Snowmen classifications.

Story Behind the Artwork

The title Our Christmas Friend changes the snowman from a simple winter figure into a character within the children’s world. One child stands close beside him while another reaches around from the opposite side, creating a loose circle of companionship around the central figure.

Behind them, Moss expands the story beyond childhood play. The farmhouse and stone wall establish a settled rural home, while the horse and buggy moving along the distant road suggest that life continues quietly beyond the children’s immediate winter adventure.

The supplied gallery information identifies this work as the 1999 Annual Christmas Print, giving the scene a documented seasonal role within Canada Goose Gallery’s product history.

Symbols & Meaning

The snowman can naturally evoke childhood imagination, play, and the temporary magic of winter. The two children reinforce the idea that the figure is something created and enjoyed together.

The house may suggest home and belonging, while the distant horse-drawn buggy adds associations with rural life and an earlier pace of travel. These are reasonable visual interpretations rather than documented statements of Moss’s intention.

The title itself supplies the clearest emotional idea: the snowman is not simply part of the scenery—he is presented as “our friend.”

Artistic Details

The circular field of color is one of the most distinctive compositional features. It encloses the house, children, snowman, and road within a unified winter vignette while allowing the surrounding paper to remain open.

Moss gives the snowman the greatest visual weight. Its broad white body fills the lower center, while the long red scarf arcs horizontally and provides the strongest color accent in the image.

The children are much smaller, which emphasizes the scale of their creation. Their dark winter clothing frames the snowman from both sides, while the warm house and horse-and-buggy details add depth farther back.

The subdued blue-green atmosphere also helps create the impression of deep winter, while the red scarf and warm architectural details prevent the composition from becoming visually cold.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Christmas Traditions

This assignment is verified. Our Christmas Friend appears explicitly in Canada Goose Gallery’s approved Christmas Traditions Master Collection, which includes snow, children, family gatherings, winter scenes, and other recurring Christmas-season imagery.

Supporting Master Collection: Childhood & Storytelling

The two children and their snowman form the principal narrative, making Childhood & Storytelling a meaningful supporting classification. The work is fundamentally about an imaginative childhood winter experience rather than the snowman existing alone.

Supporting Master Collection: Rare & Remarkable

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory explicitly classifies Our Christmas Friend as Rare Art, providing a documented edition-based reason for this additional collector connection.

Decorating Ideas

The 9 x 9-inch image and square 12 x 12-inch paper make Our Christmas Friend easy to integrate into a Christmas gallery wall, winter grouping, or stand-alone seasonal display.

Its muted blue-green, white, charcoal, and red palette works well with traditional Christmas décor, Americana interiors, farmhouse settings, and collected-home styles. The house and horse-drawn buggy also allow it to sit comfortably beside rural Moss imagery rather than only with snowman prints.

Suggested locations include a family room, living room, entryway, hallway, or dining room.

Gift Ideas

Our Christmas Friend is especially appropriate for snowman collectors, P. Buckley Moss Christmas collectors, grandparents, families, and adults who associate winter with childhood snow days.

It can also be meaningful for someone building a collection of Annual Christmas Prints or Rare Art editions. Christmas, a winter birthday, housewarming, or family gift are natural occasions.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Our Christmas Friend
Year: 1999
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Rare, limited, numbered edition
Gallery-supplied numbered edition: 8,500
Gallery-supplied Artist Proofs: 25
Annual designation: 1999 Annual Christmas Print — supplied gallery information
Image size: 9 x 9 inches
Paper size: 12 x 12 inches
Condition: New, mint condition
Certificate of Authenticity: Included, according to supplied gallery information
Product ID: 2855
Current approved CGG reference price: $145.00
CGG classification: Rare Art
Verified CGG subjects: Christmas; Snowmen

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory independently verifies the 1999 date, Rare classification, limited/numbered lithograph format, Product ID, $145 current price, and Christmas/Snowmen classifications.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Snow is usually white because its countless ice crystals scatter most visible wavelengths of sunlight, but deep snow can take on the blue-green tones seen so often in winter landscapes. The National Snow and Ice Data Center explains that when light travels farther through a snowpack, slightly more red light is absorbed, leaving proportionally more blue light to return to the viewer. The effect becomes easier to see in deep snow, holes, shadows, and compacted areas—an unexpected bit of physics behind the cool winter colors that artists use to give snow depth and atmosphere.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Our Christmas Friend is the way Moss makes a snowman the emotional center of a much broader winter story. The children physically flank their creation, but the country house, stone wall, bare trees, and tiny horse-drawn buggy extend the eye far beyond them, turning the scene into a layered memory of rural winter life. The circular atmospheric field helps hold those distant and foreground elements together. For collectors, the work combines a verified 1999 Rare Art classification, a documented place in Christmas Traditions, and a strong childhood narrative without relying on unsupported claims about popularity, demand, or future value.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery specializes in P. Buckley Moss artwork and maintains detailed records of edition type, year, condition, and collector classifications. Our Christmas Friend is documented in approved gallery inventory as a 1999 Rare, limited, numbered lithograph and is offered new and in mint condition.

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• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
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• Christmas
• Snowmen
• Children

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“Every winter needs a friend.”