Description

Summer at Home by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Summer at Home by P. Buckley Moss is a 2006 limited-edition, numbered lithograph centered on a white country house surrounded by the abundant greens and flowers of summer. Moss uses a softly rounded composition that draws the house, garden, trees, and foreground grasses together into an intimate portrait of home in its summer setting.

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies Summer at Home as Product ID 5571, currently priced at $85, and verifies its Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, and Architecture classifications.

The supplied edition information records 1,000 numbered prints and 25 artist’s proofs. The image measures 8-7/8 x 11 inches on 12-1/4 x 12-5/16-inch paper. The available print is supplied as new and mint and may be purchased individually or as part of the Home Seasons Set.

Story Behind the Artwork

The house is the clear focal point of Summer at Home. White siding and dark shutters stand out against layers of green vegetation, while the chimney and steep rooflines give the architecture a recognizable country character.

Summer makes its presence known through abundance. Trees spread across the upper portion of the composition, flowers form a colorful band across the garden, and tall green grasses fill the foreground.

Unlike Spring at Home, where two lambs occupy the pasture and share attention with the house, Summer at Home places greater emphasis on the house and its surrounding garden landscape. The season is expressed primarily through vegetation and color.

The image belongs to the Home Seasons Set, which Canada Goose Gallery independently identifies as Product ID 5573, currently priced at $340, and classifies as a Limited Edition, Lithograph, Matched Numbered Set, Numbered Edition, and Set.

Symbols & Meaning

The combination of a house, garden, and full summer vegetation can evoke ideas of home, belonging, growth, and seasonal continuity.

Those associations are appropriate as viewer interpretations, but they should not be presented as documented statements of Moss’s intent. No artwork-specific artist statement has been supplied establishing a symbolic meaning for the house, garden, trees, or summer season.

The strongest narrative comes directly from the image: the home remains constant while the landscape around it reflects a particular point in the year.

Artistic Details

Moss organizes Summer at Home around a compact architectural center surrounded by softer organic forms.

The white house immediately catches the eye because its pale façade contrasts with the deeper greens around it. Dark shutters create additional definition around the windows, while a reddish-brown chimney introduces a warm vertical accent.

The garden forms a colorful horizontal band below the house. Small touches of pink, red, lavender, and other floral color interrupt the dominant greens without overwhelming the architecture.

Tall grasses occupy the foreground, creating another layer between the viewer and the house. Trees and foliage soften the upper edges of the scene, while pale blue and muted warm tones behind the roof keep the composition light.

The softly rounded boundary is also important. Rather than treating the landscape as a conventional rectangular view, Moss contains the house and garden within an almost vignette-like field.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: The American Home

This is an explicit exact-title curator assignment. Canada Goose Gallery specifically lists Summer at Home among the representative works for The American Home, together with Spring at Home, Autumn at Home, and Winter at Home.

The collection centers on homes, domestic architecture, country settings, everyday life, traditions, hospitality, and simple living—all directly relevant to this image.

Supporting Master Collection: Gardens & Seasons

Summer is central to both the title and the visual character of the work. Full foliage, flowering plants, tall grasses, and the four-season set relationship make this a natural supporting placement.

No third Master Collection is needed.

Decorating Ideas

The fresh greens, white architecture, pale blue, and garden colors make Summer at Home particularly adaptable to cottage, farmhouse, traditional, and collected interiors.

Its compact dimensions make it suitable for a living room, kitchen, breakfast area, sunroom, bedroom, entryway, home office, or a smaller seasonal wall grouping.

For a coordinated presentation, display it with the other Home Seasons works. The repeated home theme allows the changing landscape to become the visual story.

Gift Ideas

Summer at Home is a natural choice for someone who enjoys country homes, gardens, architecture, summer landscapes, or Moss’s home-centered imagery.

It can also work well for a housewarming, anniversary, or summer birthday, especially when the recipient enjoys gardening or cottage and farmhouse interiors.

For someone who already owns another work from the Home Seasons group, it provides a direct opportunity to continue the set.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: Summer at Home
Product ID: 5571
Year: 2006 — supplied information
Medium: Lithograph
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 1,000 — supplied information
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied information
Image size: 8-7/8 x 11 inches — supplied information
Paper size: 12-1/4 x 12-5/16 inches — supplied information
Orientation: Horizontal
Current CGG price: $85
Verified CGG subject: Architecture
Condition: New, mint — supplied information
Set relationship: Home Seasons Set

CGG independently verifies Product ID 5571, current $85 price, Limited Edition, Lithograph, Numbered Edition, and Architecture.

🎨 Fun Fact:

The familiar idea of a summer flower garden owes much to plants that do not all bloom at the same moment. Gardeners often plan for succession of bloom, combining plants whose flowering periods overlap or follow one another so that color continues through different parts of the growing season. That helps explain why a mature summer garden can appear so abundant: it represents many individual growth and flowering cycles occurring together. This fact concerns garden design generally rather than the specific plants in Moss’s artwork, whose species have not been documented.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

Summer at Home becomes especially interesting when viewed beside the other Home Seasons works because Moss keeps the idea of home recognizable while changing the landscape around it. Here the architecture is surrounded by full foliage, a long band of garden color, and tall foreground grasses, making vegetation—not animals or winter weather—the principal seasonal marker. The collecting relationship is documented as well: CGG explicitly places Summer at Home with Spring at Home, Autumn at Home, and Winter at Home in The American Home, while the separately inventoried Home Seasons Set confirms the four works as a matched-numbered lithograph grouping.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies Summer at Home as Product ID 5571, a limited, numbered P. Buckley Moss lithograph currently priced at $85.

CGG also maintains the complete Home Seasons Set, providing collectors with the option of enjoying the summer image individually or building the full seasonal presentation.

Continue Exploring

The strongest related fine-art works are the other members of the Home Seasons grouping:

• Spring at Home — $85
• Winter at Home — $85
• Autumn at Home — $85
• Home Seasons Set — $340

Verified ornament examples:

• The Mill in Summer Ornament — $42 — a verified limited, numbered porcelain ornament providing a direct summer-season collecting path.
• Sweet Nectar Ornament — $42 — a verified limited, numbered porcelain ornament with Bird and Nature classifications, complementing the garden/nature aspect of Summer at Home.

Suggested Categories & Subjects:

• P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
• Architecture

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 “Home in the fullness of summer.”