Original Dogs Playing Poker 1894

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Original dogs playing poker 1894. Dogs playing pool after original by coolidge tapestry. Discover the story behind these poker faced pups. The paintings show the dogs enjoying a bunch of different positions and activities like taking a road trip and playing a game of football but obviously poker proved to be the most popular activity these dogs partake in. Similar designs more from this artist.

However only eleven of the paintings include dogs playing poker around a card table. Bulldog pop art how bout a kiss 2 by sharon cummings tapestry. Similar designs more from this artist. The original one title poker game sold for 658k in 2015.

So how pray tell did a pack of dogs playing poker outlast so many other serious paintings. Dogs playing poker by cassius marcellus coolidge refers to not just 1 painting but 18. Art 15 things you should know about dogs playing poker 1. The set of paintings were created by cassius marcellus coolidge between 1894 and 1910.

These paintings were originally commissioned to advertise cigars. Dog poker after original by coolidge. Coolidge who created at least eight variations on the dog poker theme including a friend in need 1903 the most frequently reproduced of the bunch wasn t the first to paint anthropomorphized animals they ve. There were 18 in total 11 of which show dogs round a table.

Dogs playing poker art series print includes 5 jpg files poker game 1894 is the 1st painting in the series by c m. Then in 1903 the brown and bigelow company commissioned coolidge to undertake a series of poker playing dog paintings which they reproduced as calendars. Grunt bulldog pop art by sharon cummings tapestry. Photo via wikimedia commons.

Cassius marcellus coolidge poker game 1894. All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the united states as. The series includes the artist s original poker game 1894 painting along with 16 other oil paintings commissioned in 1903 by brown bigelow and an additional 1910 painting. The later ones were used to advertise cigars and were commissioned after the popularity of the earlier ones gained wider recognition.

Dogs playing poker the previous top price for a coolidge was 74 000 chicago. The dogs playing poker series refers to the collective group of coolidge s dog paintings including his original 1894 painting the 16 oil paintings that were commissioned in 1903 by brown bigelow and an additional 1910 painting he did. Unlike his original work that used this theme these were commissioned for advertising and largely used in calendars cigar advertisements and decoration. In 1894 an american artist cassius marcellus coolidge 1844 1934 completed an oil painting of four whiskey drinking cigarette and cigar smoking dogs sitting around a table playing poker titled aptly enough dogs playing poker.

All eighteen of these paintings feature humanized dogs.