Cassius Coolidge painted pictures of dogs playing which game?
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge painting of dogs playing pool may be considered a progenitor of another memetic pop-culture art genre, that of "dogs playing pool." On February 15, 2006, two Coolidge paintings, "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo," which may have been the originals of the paintings used by Brown & Bigelow, went on the auction block at Doyle New York. Expected to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000, the pair sold for $590,400. The result surpassed the previous auction record of $74,000 for a Coolidge. Coolidge's 1894 "Poker Game" realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Cassius
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge 1872 he worked as a druggist and sign painter, founded a bank and a newspaper, then moved from Antwerp, New York, to Rochester, where he started painting dogs in human situations. Coolidge began his art career in his twenties, one of his early jobs being the creation of cartoons for a local newspaper. He is credited with creating "comic foregrounds," novelty photographs which combined a portrait of the sitter with a caricatured body, produced by the sitter holding between two sticks a canvas on which Coolidge drew or painted the caricature. The final product was similar to the photographs produced