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Which one of the following was NOT a leading painter in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1800s?
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What Berkeley County native organized exhibits and painted backdrops for the American Museum of Natural History's African Hall?
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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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A street on Charleston's West Side is named for this artist.
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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 Huntington artist designed 80 U.S. postage stamps.
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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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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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Rufus "Red" Ribble was best known for his photographs of what?
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This prominent photographer was part of the Youghiogheny Forest artists' colony and for his 1957 photo essay "Harpers Ferry Awakens" in National Geographic.
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