Description

Our Farm on Old Town Run by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Our Farm on Old Town Run by P. Buckley Moss is a 2010 artist-signed, limited, numbered giclée connected to a real property on the outskirts of Xenia, Ohio. A red farmhouse anchors the background while a curving road, bridge, bare trees, water, and small figures lead the viewer gradually through the landscape toward the home.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies the work as Product ID 7367, a variable product offered in multiple sizes, and classifies it as Artist Signed, Giclée, Limited Edition, Numbered Edition with Children, Places, and Rural Life subjects.

Story Behind the Artwork

Unlike a generalized farm scene, Our Farm on Old Town Run is tied to a documented Xenia-area property. Canada Goose Gallery records state that the house was built in 1884–1886 and that the house and land were given as a wedding gift to one of three sons of the Bryce family. The property formed part of a farm extending across several hundred acres.

Moss builds the composition around a journey toward that home. The road begins near the lower edge of the picture, crosses a wooden bridge, curves past the water, and ultimately leads toward the red house. Rather than positioning the farmhouse directly in front of the viewer, she makes it the destination of the scene.

That visual structure gives the artwork a natural connection to ideas of returning home, family roots, and place memory without requiring us to assign those meanings to Moss as documented intentions.

Historical Context

The Oldtown area north of Xenia has an important history extending far beyond the 19th-century farm depicted here. Greene County records identify Old Town as one of the county’s oldest communities and as the location of a substantial Shawnee settlement, with a population reported at about 1,100 around 1779.

The region is also strongly associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh. An Ohio historical marker at nearby Old Town Reserve identifies a site as his birthplace, but the exact location of Tecumseh’s birth remains historically disputed. An Ohio History Journal account found the preponderance of evidence in favor of a site near old Piqua on the Mad River, while acknowledging the competing Xenia-area tradition.

That distinction matters. The artwork may properly be connected to a landscape rich in Shawnee history, but the product description should not state as settled historical fact that the depicted farm itself is definitively Tecumseh’s birthplace.

Symbols & Meaning

The road and bridge can be read as symbols of passage, connection, and return, while the farmhouse may suggest home, family continuity, or attachment to place. Water introduces another visual transition between foreground and background.

These are editorial interpretations grounded in the composition. No documented artist statement has been supplied confirming that Moss intended these specific meanings.

Artistic Details

Moss organizes Our Farm on Old Town Run around the sweeping curve of the road. It enters from the lower foreground, crosses the bridge, and bends gently toward the red house, creating strong visual movement through an otherwise quiet landscape.

The red farmhouse serves as the primary color anchor. Soft peach, pale blue, cream, gray, and muted earth tones surround it, making the building immediately recognizable without overpowering the rest of the scene.

Bare tree trunks rise through the composition as slender vertical lines, contrasting with the curving roadway and horizontal bands of land and water. Small figures near the water add human scale and prevent the historic property from feeling uninhabited.

The bridge is particularly important compositionally. It functions both as a real piece of landscape infrastructure and as the visual threshold between foreground and home.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: The American Home

This is a verified curator assignment. Our Farm on Old Town Run appears explicitly in Canada Goose Gallery’s approved representative list for The American Home, whose subjects include homes, country roads, neighborhood scenes, traditions, everyday life, and domestic architecture.

Supporting Master Collection: Landmarks & Historic Places

The artwork depicts a real, documented Xenia-area property with an identified 19th-century history. That makes Landmarks & Historic Places a strong supporting assignment because the Collection is defined around historic buildings, architectural heritage, and places that preserve American stories.

Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America

The farm setting, road, bridge, rural property, and agricultural history also align with The Heart of Rural America, whose subjects include farms, fields, rural families, agricultural life, country roads, and Americana.

Decorating Ideas

The medium image size of 12 x 13-1/2 inches gives the artwork enough presence to stand alone while remaining comfortable in a smaller wall grouping. The red farmhouse, pale road, blue water, and softly muted landscape suit Americana, traditional, farmhouse, collected-home, and historic-home interiors.

Consider it for a living room, entry, dining room, study, home office, or Ohio-themed gallery wall. The image also has particular relevance in homes where art is selected for its connection to regional history or family roots rather than decoration alone.

Gift Ideas

Our Farm on Old Town Run has especially strong gift relevance for Ohio residents, Xenia-area families, rural-history enthusiasts, collectors of historic-place art, and people with family connections to farming or Greene County.

Its themes of home and place also make it appropriate for a housewarming, anniversary, retirement, family-history gift, or milestone occasion.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Year: 2010
Medium: Giclée fine art print on paper
Edition type: Artist Signed, Limited, Numbered Edition
Numbered edition: 250
Artist’s proofs: 25
Medium image size: 12 x 13-1/2 inches
Oversized image size: 33 x 36-3/4 inches
Condition: New / Mint
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Orientation: Square / near-square
Current Canada Goose Gallery price range: $150–$1,200

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies the 2010 date, artist-signed classification, giclée format, limited numbered edition, Product ID 7367, and current $150–$1,200 range. It also confirms a current Medium variation at $150 and an Oversized variation at $1,200.

🎨 Fun Fact:

The Xenia-area setting of Our Farm on Old Town Run lies close to Oldtown, one of the most historically significant Shawnee places in Greene County. County records describe Old Town as a major Shawnee settlement with a population of roughly 1,100 people around 1779. Today, nearby historical interpretation continues to tell that Indigenous history, including the region’s strong association with Tecumseh. The exact location of Tecumseh’s birth remains debated, however, so the important fact is not that this particular farmhouse can be proven to stand on his birthplace, but that Moss’s rural Ohio landscape occupies a region with a much deeper Shawnee history than its 19th-century architecture alone might suggest.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Our Farm on Old Town Run is the combination of a documented Ohio property and a composition built around approaching home. The house does not dominate the foreground; instead, Moss places it at the end of a curving road beyond a bridge, trees, water, and figures. That visual journey gives the work a particularly strong connection to The American Home while its real Xenia-area history adds regional depth. For collectors with ties to Ohio, rural heritage, historic properties, or place-based Moss subjects, the work offers more specific context than an unidentified countryside scene.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery offers Our Farm on Old Town Run in new, mint condition with a Certificate of Authenticity and maintains verified product and edition records for the work. Its multiple available sizes also give collectors options for different display spaces and collecting preferences.

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Suggested Categories & Subjects:

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 “Every road home carries a story.”