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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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Which of these artists' father was a Civil War general?
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This Upshur County artist was known for detailed wood sculptures.
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Fairmont native Fred Torrey designed which one of these statues?
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This artist was known for his sketches of the Civil War.
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This Clarksburg native designed the central element of the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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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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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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West Virginia's oldest known statue, located in Morgantown, depicts which U.S. founder?
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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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