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What type of building could this be? How can you tell?
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Look at the shapes that the artist has used in this painting. What could they represent?
Why do you think the artist named this painting My Egypt?
Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927. Oil on fiberboard, 35 3/4 × 30 in. (90.8 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.172 
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