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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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Fairmont native Fred Torrey designed which one of these statues?
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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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This statewide organization began as the Charleston Art Association in 1930.
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This Morgantown native was a teacher and administrator at Charleston's Mason College of Music & Fine Arts and had her work exhibited at the National Museum of Women and the Arts and the West Virginia State Museum.
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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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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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West Virginia's oldest known statue, located in Morgantown, depicts which U.S. founder?
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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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