Moffett Collection
Overview
Born in Clearfield, Iowa, the son of an Iowan family, Ross Moffett represents a quintessential American icon. After his initial training at the Art Institute of Chicago and upon graduating with honors in 1913, Ross Moffett immediately set out for Provincetown to study with the well-known painter and teacher, Charles W. Hawthorne. He soon became one of Hawthorne's star pupils, and his appreciation of the principles Hawthorne instilled in his students lasted lifelong. Although the First World War briefly interrupted the Provincetown experience, by 1919, Moffett was again back in his old haunts painting with enormous energy and gaining a reputation as a young "Lion" of the art community. In the same year, 1919, he met Dorothy Lake Gregory Moffett, also a student of Hawthorne's and a spirited painter in her own right. They were married in 1920. [More...]
Black & White 19th century photograph appears to be West End vicinity of Helen Jones'cottage...Collection: MoffettFormat: PhotoSubjects: Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, and West End (Provincetown, Mass.)
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- Moffett [141]
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- Archaeology [7]
- Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown [7]
- Art [6]
- Art galleries, Commercial [2]
- Art Museums [2]
- Atlantic Fisherman [2]
- Barnstable County (Mass.) History [2]
- Biography [2]
- Boat ramps [1]
- Boats and boating [15]
- Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Brigadier, Maurice [1]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) History [22]
- Cape Cod houses [3]
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) [30]
- Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Chermayeff, Serge [3]
- Churches [8]
- Cold Storages [3]
- Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [26]
- Cook Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Crowds [1]
- Del Deo, Josephine [4]
- DeWitt, Miriam Hapgood [4]
- Dickinson, Edwin [1]
- Docks [8]
- Dories (boats) [1]
- Dwellings [12]
- East End (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Emergency Committee for the Preservation of the Province Lands. (Provincetown, Mass.) [24]
- Families [3]
- Fires [6]
- Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown [3]
- Fish trapping [1]
- Fishermen [2]
- Fishing [3]
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown [19]
- Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Franklin Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Freeman Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Freemasons [1]
- Gifts [1]
- Gruening, Ernest [1]
- Guesthouses [1]
- Harbors [2]
- Harbors--Provincetown--Mass [23]
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown [24]
- Historic Districts--Massachusetts--Provincetown [16]
- Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Ice Harvest [5]
- Indians of North-America Massachusetts--Antiquities [3]
- Industries [7]
- Kennedy, John F. [1]
- Knaths, Karl [1]
- Kunitz, Stanley [1]
- Lee, Ronald [1]
- Legislative bodies [3]
- Letters [7]
- Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown [15]
- Lopes Square [1]
- MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- MacMillan, Donald B. [1]
- Massachusetts State House (Boston, MA) [1]
- Mayflower (Ship) [1]
- Mayflower II (Ship) [1]
- Mayo, Jr., Charles A. [3]
- Military history [2]
- Moffett, Ross [58]
- Murchison House [1]
- Museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Names [1]
- Nickerson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Perry, Francis W. [1]
- Pilgrim Monument [3]
- Portland Gale [1]
- Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown [11]
- Provincelands [18]
- Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government [16]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Selectmen [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century [5]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century [40]
- Provincetown Advocate [1]
- Provincetown Art Association & Museum [2]
- Provincetown Heritage Museum [1]
- Provincetown Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Provincetown Players [1]
- Provincetown Property Owners Protective Association (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Rutherford, J.T. [1]
- Sailing ships [4]
- Sailors [1]
- Schools [2]
- Schooners [3]
- Shankpainter Pond [4]
- Shipping [2]
- Shipwrecks [5]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region [3]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown [7]
- Sklaroff Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [8]
- Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century [1]
- Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.) [20]
- Town Hall [2]
- Town Meeting [17]
- Tremont Street [1]
- Unitarian Universalist Meeting House [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs [15]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands [13]
- United States. National Park Service [10]
- Vorse, Mary Heaton [2]
- Waterfronts [10]
- Weirs [2]
- Wellfleet (Mass.) [2]
- West End (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- West End Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Whalers (Persons) [1]
- Whaling [1]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [1]
- White House (Washington, D.C.) [1]
- Windstorms--Massachusetts--History--19th century [1]
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