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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)
 * You could try the following:


 * 1) Study the article It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and figure out who the production company was for that season.
 * 2) 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)).
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) 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)


 * 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)
 * 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)


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


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