Description
Quilted Purrfection by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
Quilted Purrfection by P. Buckley Moss is a 2000 Limited, Numbered Lithograph Edition that brings two inviting subjects together: feline companionship and the visual richness of patchwork quilting. A large cat with striking blue-green eyes sits at the center of the composition while a smaller orange-and-white kitten nestles closely against it. Behind and beneath them, overlapping quilt-like patterns transform the background into a tapestry of muted color and texture.
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies the work as product 7640, a 2000 limited, numbered lithograph associated with both Cat and Quilting subjects.
Story Behind the Artwork
The appeal of Quilted Purrfection begins with closeness. The smaller cat presses against the larger one rather than simply sharing the same space, creating an affectionate visual relationship without requiring a conventional narrative setting.
Moss then surrounds the pair with interlocking patches, grids, lines, and softly shifting colors suggestive of a quilt. Rather than depicting a quilt folded on a bed or hanging on a wall, she allows its patterns to become the environment itself. The cats seem almost wrapped in pattern.
The title supplies the finishing touch: “Purrfection” turns “perfection” into a feline pun, while “Quilted” identifies the second major visual theme.
Artistic Details
One of the strongest features of Quilted Purrfection is the relationship between pattern and personality. The cats are immediately recognizable, yet their bodies share many of the creams, tans, grays, and muted colors found throughout the surrounding composition.
Their eyes provide an important focal point. Cool blue-green accents stand out against the warmer neutral palette, drawing attention first to the cats’ faces before the eye begins exploring the surrounding patchwork.
Moss uses dark, sweeping lines to divide and connect areas of the composition. Geometric quilt-like passages contrast with the curved backs, faces, paws, and tail of the cats. The result feels decorative without losing the intimacy of the central subjects.
The current Canada Goose Gallery record identifies the palette as mauve, ash gray, baby blue, charcoal gray, cream, dove gray, dusty blue, and tan.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Americana
Quilted Purrfection is a strong candidate for the Americana Master Collection because quilting has a well-documented place within American material culture and decorative arts. The Smithsonian’s National Quilt Collection describes quilts as a textile narrative contributing to America’s diverse history, with surviving examples documenting changing materials, techniques, makers, communities, and historical events.
Supporting Master Collection: Love & Family
The close physical relationship between the two cats visually communicates companionship and affection. This is a visual interpretation, not a documented statement of Moss’s intended symbolism.
Cat and Quilting should remain important subject/category pathways. CGG’s approved inventory explicitly classifies Quilted Purrfection with both.
Decorating Ideas
At 9½ × 5⅜ inches, Quilted Purrfection has an intimate vertical format well suited to smaller walls and personal spaces. It would work naturally in a sewing or quilting room, reading nook, bedroom, home office, craft room, or quiet corner of a living room.
The muted combination of mauve, gray, cream, dusty blue, and tan works especially well with cottage, traditional, farmhouse, eclectic, and textile-rich interiors. Canada Goose Gallery’s existing decorating data also specifically places Quilted Purrfection within Living Space / Home Decor.
Gift Ideas
The meeting of cats and quilting gives this artwork two especially natural audiences. It makes a thoughtful gift for a cat lover, quilter, sewist, textile enthusiast, or P. Buckley Moss collector.
Its themes also lend themselves to Mother’s Day, birthdays, housewarmings, retirement gifts, or a gift between quilting friends. For someone who associates handmade textiles and pets with the comforts of home, the subject has an especially personal quality without depending on a particular season.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Quilted Purrfection
Year: 2000
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Edition: Limited, Numbered Edition
Numbered Edition: 1,000 prints
Artist’s Proofs: 25 — supplied product information; verification recommended
Image Size: 9½ × 5⅜ inches
Paper Size: 11½ × 7⅜ inches
Orientation: Vertical
Condition: New, mint condition
Certificate of Authenticity: Included
Current Canada Goose Gallery Price: $65
The current CGG product record independently confirms the year, lithograph medium, Limited and Numbered Edition classification, 1,000-print edition, vertical orientation, dimensions, and $65 price. The approved inventory likewise identifies product 7640 at $65.
🎨 Fun Fact:
Quilts can preserve much more than sewing technique. The Smithsonian’s National Quilt Collection includes examples with names, inscriptions, patriotic symbols, commemorative fabrics, and references to historical events, making some quilts genuine textile records of the people and periods that produced them. The museum’s collection now encompasses more than 500 quilts and quilt-related objects illustrating roughly 250 years of quiltmaking. That history makes the patchwork surrounding the cats in Quilted Purrfection especially evocative: while no specific historic quilt pattern should be assigned to Moss’s design without documentation, quilting itself carries a remarkable tradition of recording lives through cloth.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes Quilted Purrfection is how thoroughly Moss integrates its two subjects. The cats are not merely posed beside a quilt; feline forms and patchwork design occupy the same visual world. The larger cat’s alert blue-green eyes create an immediate focal point, while the smaller kitten tucked against its side introduces intimacy. Around them, geometric patches, sweeping dark lines, muted mauves, grays, creams, and blues keep the viewer moving through the composition. For collectors interested in Moss’s cat imagery, textile themes, or more pattern-driven compositions, this 2000 lithograph offers all three within a compact vertical format. CGG’s inventory specifically documents both Cat and Quilting classifications for the work.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery in Waynesville, Ohio, specializes in the art of P. Buckley Moss and helps collectors understand edition information, condition, and subject connections before purchasing. This copy of Quilted Purrfection is offered in new, mint condition and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Continue Exploring
Collectors drawn to the quilting theme can continue with:
- Quilted Cats Artist Proof
- Quilted Memories
- Quilter’s Choice
- Quilter’s Prayer
- Quilting Dreams
- Quilting Lesson
These works are documented within Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory and provide useful cross-sell pathways for collectors interested in Moss’s treatment of quilts and textile traditions.
For feline subjects, continue through the P. Buckley Moss Cat Collection.
“Comfort comes in patches and purrs.”
“Stitched with color. Wrapped in purrs.”
“Where patchwork meets purrfection.”
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