
Copyright: dogs playing poker
Dogs Playing Poker collectively refers to paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge depicting anthropomorphized dogs, eleven paintings of which feature them seated around a card table playing poker. Those said eleven paintings have become embedded in American pop culture.
The original paintings in question are:
- An 1894 painting titled Poker Game.
- A 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow as cigar advertisements:
- A Bachelor's Dog – reading the mail
- A Bold Bluff – poker (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)
- Breach of Promise Suit – testifying in court
- A Friend in Need (1903) – poker, cheating
- His Station and Four Aces (1903) – poker
- New Year's Eve in Dogville – ballroom dancing
- One to Tie Two to Win – baseball
- Pinched with Four Aces – poker, illegal gambling
- Poker Sympathy – poker
- Post Mortem – poker, camaraderie
- The Reunion – smoking and drinking, camaraderie
- Riding the Goat – Masonic initiation
- Sitting up with a Sick Friend (1905) – poker, gender relations
- Stranger in Camp – poker, camping
- Ten Miles to a Garage – travel, car trouble, teamwork
- A Waterloo (1906) – poker (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff) (1906)
- A 1910 painting titled Looks Like Four of a Kind.
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