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Huntington's Chuck Ripper was best known for his paintings of what?
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Which one of these is based on stitching fabric?
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Appalachian Craftsmen was started as part of this program.
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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 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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Artist Helen Chilton's best-known work involves what subject matter?
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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 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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