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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 Grafton native was one of the most famous photographers of the early 1900s.
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Huntington's Chuck Ripper was best known for his paintings of what?
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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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This Huntington expressionist abstract painter was the subject of the first retrospective of a West Virginia artist's work ever exhibited at the Culture Center in Charleston.
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This Huntington artist designed 80 U.S. postage stamps.
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Thaddeus Fowler was known for drawing what?
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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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This West Virginia first lady played a leading role in Mountain Artisans, a cooperative quilting business.
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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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