Description
The Homestead by P. Buckley Moss
Introduction
The Homestead by P. Buckley Moss is a 2016 limited-edition, numbered giclée in which a single horse dominates a broad rural landscape. Standing among tall foreground grasses, the horse is considerably larger in scale than the small group of farm buildings in the distance, giving the animal an immediate presence while the homestead establishes the country setting.
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies Product ID 6634, a current price of $115, and the work’s 2016 Giclée, Limited, Numbered Edition status. The supplied gallery record identifies the edition as 250 numbered prints and 25 artist’s proofs, printed on paper and offered in new, mint condition.
Story Behind the Artwork
The Homestead is built around a striking contrast of scale.
The horse stands close to the viewer, occupying much of the composition’s height. Its dark gray-brown body, long pale mane, and sweeping tail make it the immediate focal point.
Farther away, a cluster of warm-toned rural buildings sits near the horizon. A curving dark line—suggesting a lane or path—leads toward them, creating a visual connection between the foreground horse and distant homestead.
Tall, loosely drawn grasses rise across the bottom of the composition, partially overlapping the horse’s legs. Behind them, the land and sky are rendered in broad passages of pale blue, gray-green, cream, and muted pink.
The result is a rural scene in which the animal commands attention while architecture establishes distance and place.
Symbols & Meaning
Horses have acquired broad cultural associations with strength, movement, freedom, and companionship, but no supplied artist statement establishes those meanings as Moss’s intention in The Homestead.
Similarly, the distant buildings may remind viewers of home, agricultural heritage, or rural roots, but the artwork does not document a specific symbolic relationship between horse and homestead.
A more grounded reading comes from the composition itself: one horse occupies the immediate landscape while a group of human-built structures sits far behind it. That relationship between animal and settled countryside gives viewers room to form their own associations without assigning an undocumented message to Moss.
Artistic Details
Scale is the key compositional device in The Homestead.
The horse rises through most of the vertical image, while the farm buildings occupy only a small portion of the distant landscape. This exaggeration of foreground and background produces substantial depth without requiring dense detail.
Moss also contrasts line and color. Dark contours define the horse’s face, neck, legs, body, and tail, while the surrounding landscape is considerably softer. Tall grasses add another layer of fine vertical lines across the foreground.
The horse’s pale mane and tail provide an important counterpoint to its darker body. In the distance, golden and brown roofs introduce small areas of warmth against the cooler blue-green surroundings.
The sky moves through muted blue and gray-green into a narrow blush-colored band near the horizon. That color transition contributes atmosphere, but it does not establish a specific sunrise or sunset.
Featured Master Collections
Primary Master Collection: Animals & Companions
The horse is overwhelmingly the dominant visual subject and the primary reason the composition commands attention.
Supporting Master Collection: The Heart of Rural America
Farm buildings, grasses, open land, and the homestead setting connect the horse to the visual vocabulary of rural America.
Supporting Master Collection: The American Landscape
The broad open setting, distant buildings, layered horizon, grasses, and atmospheric sky make landscape an important part of the work rather than simply a backdrop.
Decorating Ideas
The vertical format and large central horse make The Homestead particularly effective where a strong upright artwork is needed.
Its muted blue, gray-green, cream, pink, brown, and gold palette complements equestrian, farmhouse, rustic, and collected traditional interiors without requiring strongly saturated colors.
Consider it for a living room, study, home office, bedroom, entryway, or equestrian-themed space. It can also anchor a grouping of Moss horse or rural-life works.
Gift Ideas
The Homestead is especially relevant for horse owners, equestrian families, farm and rural-heritage households, and P. Buckley Moss collectors building a horse-focused collection.
It can also suit a birthday, retirement, housewarming, anniversary, or equestrian milestone.
About the Edition
Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Title: The Homestead
Product ID: 6634
Year: 2016
Medium: Giclée on paper
Edition type: Limited, numbered edition
Numbered edition: 250 — supplied
Artist’s proofs: 25 — supplied
Image size: 13-15/16 x 10-1/4 inches — supplied
Orientation: Vertical
Current CGG price: $115
Condition: New, mint — supplied
Certificate of Authenticity: Supplied as included
Canada Goose Gallery independently verifies the 2016 date, Giclée medium, Limited Edition, Numbered Edition, Product ID 6634, and $115 current price.
🎨 Fun Fact:
A horse’s winter coat is more sophisticated insulation than it may appear. In cold conditions, horses can raise the hairs of the coat through a response called piloerection, trapping a layer of air close to the body that helps reduce heat loss. Penn State Extension notes that moisture, mud, ice, and strong wind can reduce this insulating effect because the hairs cannot function as effectively when flattened or wet. This equine adaptation is especially interesting when considering horse imagery in open rural landscapes such as The Homestead, although it is a general fact about horses rather than a statement about the season or Moss’s intention in this artwork.
🖼️ Collector’s Insight:
What distinguishes The Homestead is the dramatic difference in scale between horse and architecture. Moss places the animal close enough to fill most of the vertical composition, while the warm-roofed farm buildings appear small and distant beyond a curving lane. Tall foreground grasses partially veil the horse’s legs, and the pale mane and tail stand out against its darker body and the subdued blue-green landscape. For collectors interested in Moss’s equestrian work, this is less a conventional farm scene than a horse portrait expanded into a rural landscape. Its verified 2016 limited, numbered giclée format and supplied edition of 250 numbered prints plus 25 artist’s proofs further distinguish it from Moss horse works produced in other media or edition structures.
Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery
Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory verifies The Homestead as Product ID 6634, a 2016 limited-edition, numbered giclée currently priced at $115.
Collectors can also continue through Canada Goose Gallery’s broader horse-art and rural-life selections to compare how Moss places horses within farms, landscapes, and more intimate equestrian compositions.
Continue Exploring
For related fine art, consider other verified CGG horse and rural subjects such as:
Original horse paintings:
- Black and Gray Horse Painting
- Black Horse Painting
- Boy on Carousel Painting
- Brown Horse Head Painting
- Colorful Horse Painting
- Gray Horse in Trees Painting
- Horse and House Painting
- Horse and Landscape Painting
- Horse Full View Painting
- Horse Head Painting
- Horse Side View Painting
- Racing Horse Painting
Verified ornament examples:
- Spirit Horse Ornament — $42 — the strongest direct subject companion. CGG verifies Product ID 55958, Porcelain, Limited, Numbered Edition, with Animal / Horse classifications.
- Snowy Ride Ornament — $50 — a broader rural companion combining a horse-related ride theme with barn imagery; CGG verifies Amish Art / Barn classifications.
- Alleluia Ornament
- And the Greatest of These Ornament
- Country Meadown Ornament
- Country Ride Ornament
- Spirit Horse Ornament
- Dashing Through the Snow Ornament
- Governor’s Palace Ornament
- Christmas Night Ornament
- Christmas Song Ornament
- Colonial Winter Ornament
- Long Grove Bridge Ornament
- Love Brings You Home Ornament
- Red Chapel Ornament
- Massanutten Ride Ornament
- The Tree Lighting Ornament
- Winter Sleigh Ornament
- Christmas Ornament Easel
Suggested Categories & Subjects:
- P. Buckley Moss Fine Art Prints
- Horse Collection
- Rural Life
- Farm
- Landscape
“Where the horse becomes the landscape.”
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