Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Gallery

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Before he was painting for calendars, he worked painting street signs and houses and also tried his hand at being a druggist, an art teacher, and cartoonist. He also started his own bank and his own newspaper. So perhaps the pooches who are always looking for the angles represented Coolidge’s own ambitions. Ravensburger, Dragonfly, and Expert Software. Stretch your money further by scrolling through new or previously owned Dogs Playing Pokers. Plus, Dogs Playing Poker Frameds are a smart pick for beautifying any living space with limited run art prints. Coolidge, who is credited with creating the life-size Boardwalk cutouts into which one's head is placed, allowing the person to be photographed as a character or animal. Playing Poker" series painted by Cassius Coolidge in 1903. These paintings have become some of the most popular and recognizable paintings in American art history, and certainly some of the most famous card-playing artwork in the world. He worked as a bookkeeper, druggist, sign painter, amateur journalist, and an illustrator. They dress and behave like early 20th century upper-class men in a posh setting, wear suits, drink rum and smoke cigars, and give each other menacing glances over the poker table. Coolidge's original paintings have become some of the most famous paintings in American history. US - and the West in general - know these dogs by heart, whether it be the actual paintings themselves or the image of dogs (or any other multitude of people or characters) sitting around at a table playing poker. I don't know a ton about fine art, but I do know this: the most important painting of all time is that one of dogs playing poker. American Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. But what those people don't seem to realize is that the mere idea of dogs playing poker is both relatable and uproariously funny. It's relatable because many human beings are known to enjoy playing poker. In fact there's a whole city in Nevada where people are willing to risk their hard-earned money over poker games. The painting is uproariously funny because dogs are not humans. You see, they have paws rather than hands, and therefore they are unable to actually even hold cards, let alone play poker. New York architect Stanford White. White’s murder the previous year would be covered in books and films for decades to come, but the first order of business was the splintering and selling off of his estate. New York’s most renowned spenders arrived on the day of the auction, including theater impresario David Belasco and publisher William Randolph Hearst. Also in attendance was a jug-eared man who wasn’t quite as well-known as the other bidders. This was Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, an illustrator of some note. His most recent work was a contract job for Brown & Bigelow, a company that published calendars. Little did anyone know that Coolidge’s latest project would still be spoken about long after Stanford White was forgotten, and long after his fellow art collectors were rotting in their graves. Hence, several of the pooches are smoking. Coolidge painted 16 dog canvases for Brown & Bigelow, nine with a poker theme. It turned out that placing dogs around a green felt poker table was the sort of eureka moment dreamed of by all artists. New York Quakers in 1844, Coolidge had no formal art education but was selling his drawings to magazines by the time he was 20. Coolidge’s childhood nickname had been “Kash,” which is how he often signed his artwork. Though he worked at various times as a banker, druggist, and small-town newspaper publisher, Coolidge honed his artistic chops by taking jaunts across the country and even Europe, just to draw the sights.

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