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West Virginia State University's art gallery is named for this person.
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This Clarksburg native designed the central element of the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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This Morgantown native was a teacher and administrator at Charleston's Mason College of Music & Fine Arts and had her work exhibited at the National Museum of Women and the Arts and the West Virginia State Museum.
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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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In 1852, a group of artists documented scenic sites in what would become West Virginia while riding on this railroad.
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George Kossuth was a noted photographer in this city.
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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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Patty Willis was a well-known artist from this county.
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This Summers County potter plays music while he works and says his glaze differs based on the type of music he's playing at the time.
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