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Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor's large, vibrant paintings of prominent Black figures such as Olympian Alice Coachman (See Alice Jump, 2011) and artist David Hammons (Hammons meets a hyena on holiday, ________ celebrated by admirers of twenty-first-century portraiture, attracted legions of new fans in 2024 when they were included in a popular Taylor retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
2016) have long been
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2016), long
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2016) were long
C
2016), had long been
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