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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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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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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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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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This Huntington artist designed 80 U.S. postage stamps.
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This artist designed the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial and Military Women's Memorial at the State Capitol.
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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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