Ross Embrose Moffett was an American artist specializing in landscape painting, social realism themed murals and etching.
13 Facts About Ross Moffett
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Ross Moffett was a significant figure in the development of American Modernism after World War I Ross Moffett worked with the Works Progress Administration to complete four murals in the 1930s.
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Ross Moffett then studied with Charles Hawthorne, in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer of 1913.
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Ross 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.
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In 1924, after serving in the United States Army and traveling across Europe, Moffett returned to Provincetown, Massachusetts and became one of the early founders of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
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Ross Moffett had his first one-man show at the Frank Rehn Gallery in New York and at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928.
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Between 1932 and 1933, he taught at the University of Miami in Ohio and, in 1942, Ross Moffett became a full member of the National Academy of Design.
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Ross Moffett painted four murals in two Massachusetts post offices for the Federal Works Progress Administration between 1936 and 1938.
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Ross Moffett became interested in archaeology in the 1950s, delivered a few lectures on the subject, and wrote an article for American Antiquity entitled "A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts" which appeared in Volume 28 No 1.
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In 1960, Ross Moffett joined the movement to establish acreage known as the Province Lands as part of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park.
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Ross Moffett wrote and published a definitive history of the first thirty-three years of the Provincetown Art Association in a book titled Art in Narrow Streets in 1964.
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Ross Moffett continued serving as a juror for the Provincetown Art Association and, in 1970, was artist-in-residence for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
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Ross Moffett died of cancer on March 13,1971, in Provincetown, Massachusetts and is buried at the Provincetown cemetery next to his wife, Dorothy who died in 1975.