The Consulting Room
by RC DeWinter
Title
The Consulting Room
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting
Description
Copyright 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
The year: 1899
The place: Buffalo, NY
The event: The American debut of the play 'Sherlock Holmes', adapted, directed and performed by William Gillette with the imprimatur of the author of the Holmes canon, Arthur Conan Doyle.
William Gillette - the American playwright, director, actor - brought Sherlock Holmes to life for generations of theater-going American audiences. He was born in 1853 in the same Hartford, Connecticut neighborhood that was also home to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain.
For decades, Gillette was the absolute embodiment of Conan Doyle's much-beloved fictional detective, and it was this line from his play - "Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow" - that gave rise to the oft-repeated "Elementary, my dear Watson," first spoken by Clive Barker, who was the original talking film actor to portray the great detective. The line never actually appears in any of Conan Doyle's written works.
William Gillette eventually built an eclectic house, which he often called his 'Hadlyme stone heap' - known today simply as 'Gillette Castle' - in that town on a high bluff overlooking the Connecticut River. The room in this painting is one of the many in that house, and it is where I imagine 'the American Sherlock Holmes' might have received visitors seeking his assistance.
This painting has been FEATURED in too many groups to list.
Thanks to the group hosts for their encouragement and support.
antiques, books, chair, Connecticut, desk, Gillette Castle, library, room, Sherlock Holmes, still life, vintage, William Gillette, bookshelves, furniture, historical, realism, RC deWinter, deWinter
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Comments (18)
Lori Pittenger
Fantastic work as always Gina, congrats on your Faa Pixels All Stars group feature! Lori
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fabulous piece has been FEATURED on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 3/3/2017! Way to go! Please post it in the Group's Features discussion thread for posterity and/or any other thread that fits!
Teresa Wilson
Congratulations! Your beautiful work has been featured in the Group FAA- Pixels All Stars!
Janette Boyd
If this chair could speak, what stories we would hear! Great description and color in this painting. f/l
Phyllis Taylor
Nice patterns in this image from the lattice of the chair to the stack of documents! v
Ann Horn
Fantastic, Gina. Wonderful light and rich colors. And thanks for the interesting description.
Lenore Senior
Love this~for sense of light and color, as well as subject matter. Anytime there's a desk, a chair, books, and paper, I am in my idea of heaven. Beautiful work!
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