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Magical Encounters: Security Guard’s Art Included in Major Met Exhibition

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Hope–I Am a Morning Scarab, Armia Malak Khalil Egyptian, Wood
Hope–I Am a Morning Scarab
Armia Malak Khalil
2024
Flight Into Egypt, Henry Ossawa Tanner American, Oil on canvas, American
Flight Into Egypt
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1923