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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.


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