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September 30

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Painting In Hallway In Show

In the episode Sweet Dee Gets Audited (s7e4), 2:20 in, when Dee is first meeting the auditor, there's a painting on the wall behind her. It's of a pale woman in black surrounded by what looks like plants and she's leaning on something. On the painting, there's a signature ('He' is legible, I can't make out the rest of the name, followed by "93"). I really like the painting, but have no idea how to find out its name or anything else about it; does anyone have any info or ideas how to find out more? Thank you2601:547:1:4EE0:2D2E:2352:5EF1:6680 (talk) 22:03, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You could try the following:

Study the article It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and figure out who the production company was for that season.
Find contact information in the show's official website (link at the bottom of the show's article) and/or that of the relevant production company (see relevant article(s)).
Contact them via their website, or email address or (preferably, I suggest) a written letter. There will presumably be a Publicity Department for one or the other, or both.
Ask them. Someone (possibly a set dresser, perhaps the director) had to have decided to have that picture created for the set, or to use a particular existing painting. Production records may have the details, or the individual concerned may remember if the PD asks them.

This may not work, given that the episode was made some 10 years ago, but then again it might. Good luck! {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.128.129 (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was figuring I might have to go that route, I wasn't sure if it was perhaps something easily recognizable.

Somebody still might later in the week when more people are reading the desk. Another suggestion: if you can, isolate – from the clip that Lambiam has linked below – the 'frame' showing the most of the painting; copy it, and crop out everything but the painting; then see if any image-recognition apps on the internet can find a match for the result. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.128.129 (talk) 20:35, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I did with a screenshot that I suspected to show the painting, which led me to this clip. It is not unlikely that the work hanging on the wall is not a reproduction but an original. For one-off interior scene locations in a serial, the scene will often not be shot in a sound-stage set, which would have to be created for that one occasion, but may use, as a cost-cutting approach, an existing real-world location. With some luck, the set decorator needs hardly to do anything if the pre-existing dressing does not clash with the narrative. So the art work may just have been hanging there already, deemed appropriate as a choice for the auditor to dress her office. --Lambiam 19:46, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose it is the painting seen in this brief clip. --Lambiam 20:44, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the painting.2601:547:1:4EE0:3CE1:F670:4CDE:CBD7 (talk) 00:16, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]