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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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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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Kanawha County native Herman Hayes was best known for his work in this field.
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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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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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In 1852, a group of artists documented scenic sites in what would become West Virginia while riding on this railroad.
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In the 1950s, West Virginia's Future Homemakers and Future Farmers clubs raised funds to build the Crafts House at this place.
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Thaddeus Fowler was known for drawing what?
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West Virginia's oldest known statue, located in Morgantown, depicts which U.S. founder?
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