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This Grafton native was one of the most famous photographers of the early 1900s.
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This artist was known for his sketches of the Civil War.
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Artist Gladys Tuke was most closely associated with which one of these?
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What 19th-century Martinsburg-based artist sketched scenes of John Brown's hanging and the Civil War?
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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 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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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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Gutzon Borglum, who designed the statue of Collis P. Huntington in Huntington, is best known for designing what landmark?
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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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