Ross Moffett

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.

Women Waving, Four-Masted Ship . Monotype on paper, 1927
Ross Moffett's A Skirmish Between British and Colonists near Somerville in Revolutionary Times , 1937
Moffett's 1936 work, "Captain Alezue Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River" , as seen in the Holyoke Post Office .