who painted the picture of dogs playing poker
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
title: Dogs Playing Poker text: Dogs Playing Poker Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, and a 1910 painting. All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples of kitsch art in home decoration. Critic Annette Ferrara has described "Dogs Playing Poker" as "indelibly burned into ... the American collective-schlock subconscious ... through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera". title: Dogs Playing Poker text: undisclosed buyer for US $590,400. The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000. The 2015 sale price of Coolidge's 1894 "Poker Game", $658,000, is now the highest price paid for a Coolidge. Dogs Playing Poker Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, and a 1910 painting. All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples title: Dogs Playing Poker text: The first painting, Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game, realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015. The title of Coolidge's 1894 painting is "Poker Game". The titles in the Brown & Bigelow "Dogs Playing Poker" series are: These were followed in 1910 by a similar painting, Looks Like Four of a Kind. Some of the compositions in the series are modeled on paintings of human card-players by such artists as Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, and Paul Cézanne. On February 15, 2005, the originals of "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" were auctioned as a pair to an title: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge text: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings "Dogs Playing Poker". Known as "Cash" or "Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge. Coolidge was born in Antwerp, New York to abolitionist Quaker farmers, and was raised in Philadelphia, New York. He had little formal training as an artist. After leaving the family farm in the early 1860s, Coolidge had many careers. Between 1868 and title: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge text: painting of dogs playing pool may be considered a progenitor of another memetic pop-culture art genre, that of "dogs playing pool." On February 15, 2006, two Coolidge paintings, "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo," which may have been the originals of the paintings used by Brown & Bigelow, went on the auction block at Doyle New York. Expected to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000, the pair sold for $590,400. The result surpassed the previous auction record of $74,000 for a Coolidge. Coolidge's 1894 "Poker Game" realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Cassius