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What do you see?
What sounds might you hear?
Look at the arches of the bridge. Have you ever seen arches like that before? Where?
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939. Oil on canvas, 70 × 42 in. (177.8 × 106.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 42.15 
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