P BUCKLEY MOSS MUSEUM
Posted By drsao on November 10, 2008
Marla and I drove to Waynesboro today to visit the P. Buckley Moss Museum. What a fabulous place and I loved hearing about the artist. P. Buckley Moss is now 75 years old, but very young at heart. I love her folk art/whimsical creations. I also love her story. She grew up with a learning disability – in a time when no one reallly knew anything about it. Because she had difficulty in school – and especially with reading – she invested her time in her art creations. As a result Virginia now claims a quite prolific artist.
P. Buckley Moss depicts a lot of family scnenes, skaters, winter scenes and geese – with long necks – and she never shows the feet of the geese because theologically the webbed feet of geese was once thought to represent sin. Her people also have long necks and are charmingly loving and more often than not, reflective of the Amish way of life. Also the roofs on her houses often blend into the sky in her paintings to represent the freedom of the soul – likewise there are no doors on her houses – they are open – like ones soul. WOW – what symbolism.
This was my first time to visit the Moss Museum (and it won’t be my last!) I planned to GIVE my “self” a MOSS PRINT for my birthday – I wanted one with quilts and cats in it….and boy was that ever difficult to choose. Here are some of my favorites!
I finally chose STAR CITY QUILTS – the one with two women quilting a star quilt – children and cats are nearby – and there are baskets everywhere (I DEARLY LOVE BASKETS) – one of my grandangels is called SARAH BEAR and my daughter, Christi, loves monkeys – so, as you can see, this STAR CITY QUILT represents ME! LOVE IT!
The autumn landscape on our day trip was fantastic. There were lots of OOOHS and AAAHS today both inside the museum and outside as well. I hope you enjoyed my pictures from today……I do NOT HAVE A CLUE why my pictures have been REARRANGED FOR ME – but I think you can tell which pictures were taken inside the museum and which were takein outside…LOL. ENJOY!
You look like you had a wonderful time. The Pat Moss painting you chose is perfect.