Description

The Good Road Poster by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

The Good Road Poster by P. Buckley Moss celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway through a montage of landscapes, architecture, engineering, and cultural sites associated with the celebrated scenic route through Virginia and North Carolina.

Issued as an open-edition poster, this 2009 edition is printed on paper and, according to the supplied gallery record, is hand signed by P. Buckley Moss beneath the image. The available example is new and mint and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies the poster as Product ID 4146, currently $60, and classifies it as an Open Edition Poster.

Story Behind the Artwork

Rather than focusing on a single viewpoint, The Good Road Poster gathers a journey’s worth of Blue Ridge Parkway experiences into one vertical composition.

The supplied product history identifies Peaks of Otter, the Farmstead at Humpback Rocks, Explore Park, Mabry Mill, the Blue Ridge Music Center, the Cone Manor House, the Linn Cove Viaduct, Linville Falls, and Looking Glass Rock among the featured places.

That combination is significant. Historic farm buildings and a mill recall mountain work and rural life. The Blue Ridge Music Center represents the region’s musical traditions. Cone Manor introduces architecture and estate history. Linville Falls and Looking Glass Rock bring the natural landscape forward, while the Linn Cove Viaduct represents a much later chapter in the Parkway’s engineering history.

Together, they turn the poster into a visual journey along the road rather than a portrait of one landmark.

Story Behind the Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway was conceived during the Great Depression as a scenic road linking Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. Construction began on September 11, 1935, near Cumberland Knob, North Carolina. The project employed private contractors as well as workers associated with New Deal programs including the Works Progress Administration, Emergency Relief Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps.

The route ultimately extended 469 miles through the Blue Ridge and Southern Appalachian Mountains. The last major missing section was completed when the Linn Cove Viaduct opened in 1987.

That 1935 beginning explains the anniversary celebrated on the poster: 2010 marked 75 years since construction began. The supplied 2009 edition date places the poster immediately before that anniversary year.

Symbols & Meaning

The road itself provides the composition’s strongest unifying idea.

The National Park Service explains that early Parkway designers envisioned more than transportation. Landscape architects carefully arranged the route around scenic views, recreational opportunities, and historic sites.

That history makes the poster’s mixture of waterfalls, mountains, farms, mills, buildings, music, and engineering especially appropriate. These were not simply attractions placed near an existing highway; the experience of moving through changing landscapes and cultural places was fundamental to the Parkway’s design.

No supplied artist statement establishes a separate symbolic meaning intended by Moss.

Artistic Details

The poster uses a picture-within-a-picture format. A tall rectangular Moss landscape occupies the center of a black field, outlined by a narrow red border.

Inside the image, the composition moves downward from distant blue mountains and historic buildings through water, wooded slopes, a waterfall, rock formations, flowers, and the winding Parkway itself. The serpentine road near the bottom becomes a visual invitation into the landscape.

Outside the image, typography turns the artwork into a commemorative object. Moss’s distinctive name appears prominently in red at the top, while THE GOOD ROAD / Blue Ridge Parkway / 75th Anniversary anchors the lower portion.

The black surround makes the muted blues, greens, creams, and pinks of the central artwork appear especially luminous.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Landmarks & Historic Places

The poster intentionally brings together multiple documented Parkway destinations and cultural landmarks.

Supporting Master Collection: The American Landscape

Mountains, waterfalls, rock formations, forests, and the Parkway itself are fundamental to both the image and the historic identity of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Supporting Master Collection: Place & Memory

For people who have driven the Parkway, visited Mabry Mill, stopped at Peaks of Otter, walked near Linville Falls, encountered the Linn Cove Viaduct, or built family travel traditions along the route, the poster can function as a visual record of place and journey.

Decorating Ideas

The Good Road Poster is especially appropriate for a study, den, travel-themed room, cabin, mountain home, office, hallway, visitor space, or Blue Ridge gallery wall.

The black border and red typography give it a more graphic character than a conventional landscape print, allowing it to work equally well with travel posters, National Park memorabilia, historic maps, and other Moss Blue Ridge subjects.

Gift Ideas

Consider The Good Road Poster for Blue Ridge Parkway travelers, Virginia and North Carolina families, hikers, road-trip enthusiasts, National Park visitors, Appalachian-history enthusiasts, and people with memories of specific Parkway destinations.

It can also commemorate a Blue Ridge road trip, retirement journey, mountain vacation, family travel tradition, or connection to the Southern Appalachians.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: The Good Road Poster / Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway The Good Road Poster
Edition date: 2009 — supplied
Format: Poster on paper
Edition type: Open Edition
Signature: Hand signed “P Buckley Moss,” centered below image — supplied
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Included — supplied
Product ID: 4146
Current CGG price: Artist Hand-Signed $85 – Regular unsigned edition $60
Inventory classification: Open Edition, Poster
Numbered edition: Not applicable to this poster
Artist’s proofs: Not applicable to this poster
Poster dimensions: 25-1/2 x 16 inches

Important distinction: Canada Goose Gallery also inventories a separate 2009 limited-edition lithograph titled The Good Road Blue Ridge Parkway, Product ID 16263, currently $125. The poster should not be confused with that numbered fine-art edition.

🎨 Fun Fact:

The Blue Ridge Parkway was not designed simply to get motorists from one destination to another as efficiently as possible. National Park Service history describes a philosophy of “drive a while, stop a while”: landscape architects deliberately shaped the route around changing views, recreation, and historic places so the road itself became part of the experience. Construction began in 1935, but creating the continuous 469-mile route ultimately took more than half a century—the Linn Cove Viaduct section finally completed the Parkway in 1987.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

The Good Road Poster is distinctive because it compresses the Blue Ridge Parkway experience into a single commemorative composition rather than choosing one landmark. Historic buildings, mountain scenery, water, falls, and the winding roadway create a visual journey through the region, while the bold black surround and 75th Anniversary typography preserve the poster’s original commemorative purpose. For collectors interested in Moss’s Virginia, Appalachian, or landmark subjects, it also offers an important contrast with the separate limited-edition The Good Road Blue Ridge Parkway: this is the open-edition anniversary poster, supplied as hand signed by Moss, rather than the numbered 2009 lithograph.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies this work as Product ID 4146, Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway The Good Road Poster, an Open Edition Poster currently priced at $60. The available example is further supplied as new, mint, hand signed by P. Buckley Moss, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Continue Exploring

A particularly important companion is the separate fine-art edition:

• The Good Road Blue Ridge Parkway — 2009 limited-edition lithograph, Product ID 16263, currently $125.
• Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway The Good Road Poster
• Virginia State Capitol Poster
• Virginia State Map Poster
• Virginia Monticello Poster

Verified ornament examples:

• Massanutten Ride Ornament — a verified Virginia mountain/travel-themed ornament that can complement a broader Blue Ridge and Virginia grouping.
• Burruss Hall Ornament
• Monticello Memories Ornament
• Governor’s Palace Ornament
• Mabry Mill Ornament
• Autumn at Silver Lake Mill Ornament
• Humpback Bridge Ornament
• Roanoke Farmer’s Market Ornament
• Silver Lake Mill Ornament
• Old Town Winchester Sleigh Ride Ornament
• Winter’s Reverie Ornament
• The Mill in Summer Ornament
• Silver Lake in Spring Ornament
• Massanutten Ride Ornament
• Winter at the University
• Warmth Within Warrenton Ornament
• Winter at Meems Bottom Bridge Ornament
• Memories of Manassas Ornament
• Winter’s Eve at Smithfield Plantation Ornament
• Church Circl Ride Ornament
• Colonial Winter Ornament

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• P. Buckley Moss Posters
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• The Collections Hub
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• Virginia
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• Historic Landmarks
• Landscape

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 “The journey is part of the destination.”