Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
- Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844–January 13, 1934) was a United States painter best known for a series of nine paintings of anthropomorphized Dogs Playing Poker.
Born in upstate New York to abolitionist Quaker farmers, Coolidge was known to friends and family as "Cash." While he had no formal training as an artist his natural aptitude for drawing led him to create cartoons for his local newspaper when in his twenties. He is credited with creating Comic Foregrounds, life-size cutouts into which one's head was placed so as to be photographed as an amusing character.
In 1903, Coolidge contracted with the advertising firm of Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota, to create sixteen oil paintings of dogs in various human poses.
Nine of them depict dogs playing poker. On February 15, 2005, two of these much imitated paintings, "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo", went on the auction block expecting to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000 but surprisingly sold for $590,400. The auction set an auction record for Coolidge, whose previous top sale was $74,000.
In 1910 Coolidge painted "Looks Like Four of a Kind" in the same style as his earlier "Dogs Playing Poker" series.
His paintings inspired American illustrator Arthur Sarnoff who is famous for his Dogs Playing Pool style paintings, and hundreds of other imitators.
External links
* [http://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/ DogsPlayingPoker.org]
* [http://gaming.unlv.edu/gallery/a_friend_in_need.htm A collection of Coolidge paintings] from the website of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/827/000089560/ bio and photo of Coolidge] from NNDB site
* [http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/16/news/newsmakers/poker_dogs/ 'Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K]
* [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=pp4MJtsBmd&isbn=1402734484&itm=2 The 'Dogs Playing Poker' poker kit]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10486199 Find-A-Grave profile for Cassius Marcellus Coolidge]
* [http://ask.yahoo.com/20061205.html Ask Yahoo Who painted "Dogs Playing Poker"?]
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