Ross E. Moffett Sites

Medium: oil on canvas This 1936 Section of Fine Arts mural by Ross E. Moffett depicts "Captain Alezur Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River." The mural depicts the original explorers of the Connecticut River lead by the town’s namesake using the elaborate marble doorframe to define the small hill the explorers were standing on. Ross Moffett was born in Iowa and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Student’s League in New York City. He moved to the bay area of California and then to Provincetown, MA where he died.

The historic Revere post office contains a 1939 Section of Fine Arts mural titled "The First Store and Tavern." The work, painted by Ross E. Moffett, was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The lobby of the old post office (now privately owned) contains a New Deal mural entitled "A Skirmish between Bristish and Colonists," which was painted in 1937 by Ross E. Moffett. The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. (Here is another photo of the mural that appeared in the Boston Globe, November 29, 2014)

"Ross Moffett studied with Hawthorne and was one of the first year-round painters in Provincetown, moving into Days Lumberyard in 1914. "Gathering Beach Plums" and "Spreading Nets," his large murals in the Town Hall entrance were painted in 1934 under the federal Public Works of Art Project of the Depression era. An easel painter and monotype artist, Moffett undertook only one other mural commission in his career." (IAmProvincetown.com)