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Parkersburg's A. P. Donaghho was known for what types of products?
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West Virginia State University's art gallery is named for this person.
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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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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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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 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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This artist designed the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial and Military Women's Memorial at the State Capitol.
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What year was the first Mountain State Art & Craft Fair held at Cedar Lakes?
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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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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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