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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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This Huntington expressionist abstract painter was the subject of the first retrospective of a West Virginia artist's work ever exhibited at the Culture Center in Charleston.
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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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This artist designed the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial and Military Women's Memorial at the State Capitol.
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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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West Virginia's oldest known statue, located in Morgantown, depicts which U.S. founder?
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A statue of which person stands outside the Mingo County Courthouse?
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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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This prominent photographer was part of the Youghiogheny Forest artists' colony and for his 1957 photo essay "Harpers Ferry Awakens" in National Geographic.
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