[1] Moffett attended St. George's School in Rhode Island and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Middlebury College in 1967.
[1] He later enrolled in the master's program at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, although he did not complete his doctoral dissertation.
[1][2] At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he worked on projects involving Dutch and Flemish paintings and curated exhibitions featuring artists such as Degas and Van Gogh.
[1] At the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, he organized an exhibition titled "The New Painting: Impressionism 1874–1886," which examined aspects of the Impressionist movement.
In 2017, the college organized a posthumous exhibit entitled "A Story of Art: Gifts from the Collection of Charles S. Moffett ’67 and Lucinda Herrick".