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This Upshur County artist was known for detailed wood sculptures.
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This Clarksburg native designed the central element of the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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What Berkeley County native organized exhibits and painted backdrops for the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall?
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S. L. Jones of Summers County 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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Artist Helen Chilton's best-known work involves what subject matter?
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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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This Sutton-based artist designed the statue of Robert C. Byrd in the West Virginia State Capitol and a bronze memorial to Hawks Nest Tunnel victims at Tamarack in Beckley.
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A statue of which person stands outside the Mingo County Courthouse?
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