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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.