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Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings Dogs Playing Poker. Known as "Cash" or "Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes^{[clarification needed]} spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Born	(1844-09-18)September 18, 1844 Antwerp, New York, United States
Died	January 13, 1934(1934-01-13) (aged 89) Staten Island, New York[1]
Nationality	American
Known for	Illustration, painting
Notable work	Dogs Playing Poker

Early life

Coolidge was born in Antwerp, New York to abolitionist Quaker farmers, and was raised in Philadelphia, New York.[1]

He had little formal training as an artist.

Career

After leaving the family farm in the early 1860s,[1] Coolidge had many careers. Between 1868 and 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.[2]

Editorial work

Coolidge began his art career in his twenties, one of his early jobs being the creation of cartoons for a local newspaper.

Comic foregrounds

He is credited[3] 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, which he patented.[4] The final product was similar to the photographs produced using photo stand-ins at midways and carnivals where people place their heads into openings in life-size caricatures.[5]

Calendar paintings

According to the advertising firm Brown & Bigelow, then primarily a producer of advertising calendars, Coolidge began his relationship with the firm in 1903. From the mid-1900s to the mid-1910s, Coolidge created a series of sixteen oil paintings for them, all of which featured anthropomorphic dogs, including nine paintings of Dogs Playing Poker,[6] a motif that Coolidge is credited with inventing.

The series of 16 commissioned paintings and their themes are:

Other paintings

Additional paintings in a similar vein include:

• Kelly Pool (ca. 1909) – pool

Named for the then-common pool-game Kelly pool, Coolidge's painting of dogs playing pool may be considered a progenitor of another memetic pop-culture art genre, that of "dogs playing pool."

Auction records

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.[7]

Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015.[8]

References

Bibliography

• Davidson, Carla (February 1973). "A Man's Life". American Heritage. p. 56. ISSN 0002-8738.
• Fredrickson, Gardner (2006). Poker Dogs: The Life and Work of C. M. Coolidge. Writers' Collective. ISBN 978-1594110382.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.

• Works by Cassius M. Coolidge at Project Gutenberg
• Unofficial Cassius Coolidge biography from DogsPlayingPoker.org
• Cassius Marcellus Coolidge at Find a Grave
• Article in Watertown Daily Times announcing Philadelphia, New York Museum and noting Philadelphia, New York as the true birthplace of Cassius M. Coolidge

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[de] Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (* 18. September 1844 in Antwerp, New York; † 13. Januar 1934 in New York City, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Maler. Er wurde bekannt mit seiner aus einer Reklamekampagne einer Zigarrenfirma entstandenen Gemälde-Serie „Dogs Playing Poker“.

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- [en] Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

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[es] Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (Antwerp, Nueva York; 18 de septiembre de 1844-Nueva York, 13 de enero de 1934) fue un pintor estadounidense, especialmente conocido por sus pinturas que retratan a perros jugando al póker.

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[fr] Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (18 septembre 1844 - 13 janvier 1934) est un peintre américain, essentiellement connu pour une série de neuf peintures de chiens anthropomorphiques jouant au poker.

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[it] Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (18 settembre 1844 – 13 gennaio 1934) è stato un pittore statunitense, principalmente conosciuto per una serie di diciotto dipinti raffiguranti cani che giocano a poker.

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[ru] Кулидж, Кассиус Маркеллус

Кассиус Марцелл Кулидж (18 сентября 1844 года — 13 января 1934 года) — американский художник, известен прежде всего своими изображениями антропоморфных собак.

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