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In what city was Thomas Anshutz's painting The Ironworkers' Noontime set?
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Which of these artists' father was a Civil War general?
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This photographer edited Wonderful West Virginia magazine for many years.
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The Youghiogheny Forest Colony for artists was located in what county?
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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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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 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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This Parkersburg native was known for his paintings of golf courses and wildlife and established the first West Virginia chapters of Ducks Unlimited, National Ruffed Grouse Society, and Quail Unlimited.
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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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What year was the first Mountain State Art & Craft Fair held at Cedar Lakes?
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