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The Youghiogheny Forest Colony for artists was located in what county?
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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 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 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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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 artist designed the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial and Military Women's Memorial at the State Capitol.
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Renowned architect Walter Gropius designed additions to this West Virginia museum?
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What museum hosts the biennial West Virginia Juried Exhibition?
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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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Patty Willis was a well-known artist from this county.
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