Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was a drugstore owner, painter, bank owner, and inventor.
But Coolidge (who at times signed his work Kash” or Kash Koolidge) became well known as the creator of the dogs-playing-poker genre of painting, a subject which grew out of the 19th-century tradition of visual humor.
From the mid-1900s to the mid-1910s, Coolidge created a series of sixteen oil paintings for them, all of which featured anthropomorphic dogs, including nine paintings of Dogs Playing Poker,] a motif that Coolidge is credited with inventing.
His work was purchased by cigar companies, who made copies of his paintings as promotional giveaways, and by the printing firm of Brown & Bigelow who made his work widely known by using it in advertising posters, calendars, and prints.
You can find more of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s artwork across the Internet.
These dogs look a lot like some of the ones we have in DC!!
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Thank you my friend!
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Oh , I remember these paintings well, they impressed my imagination when I was a young lad, and now today they impress me even more.
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Who ever thought of them as professional art pieces? But they were created by a very talented artist!
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