Dogs Playing Poker
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"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[edit]
The titles in the "Dogs Playing Poker" series proper are:
- A Bold Bluff (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)[1]
- 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)[1]
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.[1]
Cultural references[edit]
- Fab 5 Freddy used one of the paintings as a background prop for Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1993 music video "What's My Name?"
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McManus, James. "Play It Close to the Muzzle and Paws on the Table," New York Times (December 3, 2005).
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