Ross Embrose Moffett (February 2, 1888 – March 13, 1971) was an American artist specializing in landscape painting, social realism themed murals and etching.
[1] Moffett married artist Dorothy Lake Gregory, best known as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books and magazines, in 1920, in Brooklyn, New York.
[6] Moffett painted four murals in two Massachusetts post offices for the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1936 and 1938.
Moffett became interested in archaeology in the 1950s, delivered a few lectures on the subject,[1] and wrote an article for American Antiquity entitled "A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts" which appeared in Volume 28 No 1.
[6] In 1960, Moffett joined the movement to establish acreage known as the Province Lands as part of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park.