# Picture on the Three's Company wall

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picture-on-the-threes-company-wall/407590>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 11, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picture-on-the-threes-company-wall/407590 "2007-06-11T18:04:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picture-on-the-threes-company-wall/407590/1 "2007-06-11T18:04:58Z")

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Eons ago in Cafe Society, someone posted a thread asking about the picture on the wall of the apartment on the TV show _Three’s Company_, showing a woman with butterfly wings. I answered that it was a cover illustration from the old _New Yorker_-style magazine _Life_ (not the Time Inc. picture magazine).

Just today I found a poster reproduction of that painting. It’s titled “[The Flapper](http://www.answers.com/topic/lifeflapper1922-jpg)” (get the pun?), and was painted by the great [F.X. Leyendecker](http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendeceker,fx.htm). It was on the cover of the _Life_ issue of February 2, 1922.

I have not been able to find the old thread, so I am posting it as a new thread in case whoever asked about it still wants to know.

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**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picture-on-the-threes-company-wall/407590/2 "2007-06-11T18:08:08Z")

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Thank you. I wasn’t around for the old thread, but my friends (well, at least the ones who liked the show) and I have been wondering about that for ages.

Did you just come across the poster by chance, or were you looking for that specific image?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picture-on-the-threes-company-wall/407590/3 "2007-06-11T18:25:23Z")

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The thread/question I’m remembering was within the past year and had to do with a painting in Roseanne’s room. Maybe bedroom, maybe kitchen, maybe den. But Roseanne. Can’t remember if the answer ever got settled on.

BTW, this thread suggests another theme: Provide the answer, let the poster(s) come up with the relevant question(s).

Example:

Answer: Delilah’s hairdresser