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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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Parkersburg's A. P. Donaghho was known for what types of products?
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Huntington's Chuck Ripper was best known for his paintings of what?
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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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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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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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Thaddeus Fowler was known for drawing what?
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During the Civil War, this 12-year-old future artist guided U.S. troops to an important river landing in Parkersburg.
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