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Ross E. Moffett: (1888 - 1971) Sea, landscapes, extremely sought after artist, numerous paintings hang in Provincetown Town Hall, taught at Cape Cod School of Art, well listed and accomplished, member of National Academy, also had works on Coca Cola Posters, 1930's. Book written about him: "Life and Time of the American Painter, Ross E. Moffett" by Josephine Couch del Deo).Bio Sketch from AskArt: At the time Charles W. Hawthorne had begun to surround himself with a glory still lingering in Provincetown today, Ross Moffett moved into this circle of light with primary attributes which were to receive stimulation and refinement from Hawthorne. Moffett viewed Hawthorne's teaching from his own strongly individual vantage point, although he accepted it with natural respect. The turning point for Moffett came in 1916, when he began to feel that he was discovering his own voice. "I continued working, endeavoring to mine the vein I had uncovered. My subject was life in Provincetown as observed it visually during my many walks in the town, particularly in the west section where the Portuguese flavor was especially manifested." Extemporizing his statement about life through the virtuoso handling of the figure in the landscape, Moffett portrayed a world of bleak strength, fateful mood and stark poetry. The sheer painting power of the forms and color Moffett used in these paintings seems to have been his most forceful statement about man and his fate. It is, moreover, expressed as only a painter can express it without loss to rhetoric. Few American painters so successfully incorporated the figure in a landscape as Ross Moffett. Source: Josephine del Deo, Outer Cape Auctions, www.outercapeartauctions