Copyright: dogs playing poker

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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 Dogvilleballroom dancing
    • One to Tie Two to Win – baseball
    • Pinched with Four Aces – poker, illegal gambling
    • Poker Sympathy – poker
    • Post Mortem – poker, camaraderie
    • The Reunionsmoking 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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