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Art and Artists

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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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In what city was Thomas Anshutz's painting The Ironworkers' Noontime set?
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Which of these artists' father was a Civil War general?
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Which of these artists was named a National Heritage Fellow in 2000?
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Appalachian Craftsmen was started as part of this program.
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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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This Eastern Panhandle landscape artist's work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art.
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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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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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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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