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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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This Upshur County artist was known for detailed wood sculptures.
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This photographer edited Wonderful West Virginia magazine for many years.
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Fairmont native Fred Torrey designed which one of these statues?
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This Cedar Grove native won the Governor's Award at the West Virginia Juried Exhibition three times and the Award of Excellence at Huntington Museum of Art's Exhibition 280.
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In 1997, this artist became the first West Virginia woman ever to receive a federal commission for art, for two paintings at the IRS National Computing Center in Martinsburg.
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In 1852, a group of artists documented scenic sites in what would become West Virginia while riding on this railroad.
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This West Virginia first lady played a leading role in Mountain Artisans, a cooperative quilting business.
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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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When this work won the top art prize for the 1963 Centennial, Charleston Mayor John Shanklin called it "atrocious."
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