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C. M. Coolidge
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 - January 13, 1934) was a painter best known for a series of nine paintings of Dogs Playing Poker. Those nine paintings were a subset of sixteen paintings series produced for Brown and Bigelow in 1903 for their use in calendars and other promotional material:
- "A Bachelor's Dog"
- "A Bold Bluff"
- "Breach of Promise Suit"
- "A Friend in Need"
- "His Station and Four Aces"
- "New Year's Eve in Dog Ville"
- "One to Tie Two to Win"
- "Pinched with Four Aces"
- "Poker Sympathy"
- "Post Mortem"
- "The Reunion"
- "Riding the Goat"
- "Sitting up with a Sick Friend"
- "Stranger in Camp"
- "Ten Miles to a Garage"
- "Waterloo: Two"
In 1910 Coolidge painted "Looks Like Four of a Kind" in the same style as his earlier "Dogs Playing Poker" series.
External links
- A collection of Coolidge paintings from the website of an arts and crafts retail chain
- A poker fan's biography of Coolidge
- 'Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K
Last updated: 10-14-2005 14:28:41
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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