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This Grafton native was one of the most famous photographers of the early 1900s.
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What 19th-century Martinsburg-based artist sketched scenes of John Brown's hanging and the Civil War?
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Kanawha County native Herman Hayes was best known for his work in this field.
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This Kanawha County native sculpted a bear on the former West Virginia Tech campus at Montgomery, a beaver at Bluefield High School, and a madonna and child in a Kanawha Valley church.
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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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This Eastern Panhandle landscape artist's work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art.
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Thaddeus Fowler was known for drawing what?
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A statue of which person stands outside the Mingo County Courthouse?
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What museum hosts the biennial West Virginia Juried Exhibition?
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Patty Willis was a well-known artist from this county.
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