cassius marcellus coolidge painted the picture of dogs playing poker.
cassius marcellus coolidge painted the picture of dogs playing poker.
who painted the picture of dogs playing poker?
cassius marcellus coolidge
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dogs playing poker, by cassius marcellus coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by brown & bigelow to advertise cigars, and a 1910 painting. 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 examples of kitsch art in home decoration.









































critic annette ferrara has described "dogs playing poker" as "indelibly burned into ... the american collective-schlock subconscious ... through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera".
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bullet::::- in the television show "newsradio's" spoof of the film "titanic", characters fleeing the sinking ship/radio broadcasting studio dump famous artworks, but hold on to a "dogs playing poker" painting, which a character claims is a "great picture".









































bullet::::- in the 1999 film remake of "the thomas crown affair", banning believes she finds a stolen monet in crown's house. on expert examination it turns out to be a fake painted on top of a "dogs playing poker" canvas, "poker sympathy".
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