Dogs Playing Poker

"Dogs Playing Poker" refers to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. All the paintings in the series feature anthropomorphized dogs.

Paintings
The titles in the "Dogs Playing Poker" series proper are:
 * A Bold Bluff (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)
 * A Friend in Need
 * His Station and Four Aces
 * Pinched with Four Aces
 * Poker Sympathy
 * Post Mortem
 * Sitting up with a Sick Friend
 * Stranger in Camp
 * Waterloo (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff)

These were followed in 1910 by a similar painting, Looks Like Four of a Kind. Some of the compositions in the series are modeled on paintings of human card-players by such artists as Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, and Paul Cézanne.

Cultural references

 * Fab 5 Freddy used one of the paintings as a background prop for Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1993 music video "What's My Name?"