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Photographer Walter Aegerter was associated with which town?
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Parkersburg's A. P. Donaghho was known for what types of products?
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The Youghiogheny Forest Colony for artists was located in what county?
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Kanawha County native Herman Hayes was best known for his work in this field.
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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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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 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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Renowned architect Walter Gropius designed additions to this West Virginia museum?
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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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