who painted the picture of dogs playing poker
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Dogs Playing Poker 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".
Dogs Playing Poker
Dogs Playing Poker 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".
Dogs Playing Poker
undisclosed buyer for US $590,400. The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000. The 2015 sale price of Coolidge's 1894 "Poker Game", $658,000, is now the highest price paid for a Coolidge. Dogs Playing Poker 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
Dogs Playing Poker
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
flicker of a smile" from the film, despite the skill of its actors. The film's themes and its relationship to later works have been the subject of critical analysis. "A Cure for Pokeritis" may be the first depiction of poker in film, and provides insight into the public's perception of the game at the time as a male-dominated societal ill. This attitude, and a scene similar to the film's plot, is also present in Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's painting "Sitting up with a Sick Friend", part of the "Dogs Playing Poker" series commissioned in 1903. "A Cure for Pokeritis" has been
A Cure for Pokeritis
being incurred by the state for the "care of mentally ill people intended for death". His courageous New Year's Eve sermons in the Freiburg Münster and his Lenten pastoral letters became especially effective with the public. In them he particularly lashed the Nazi regime's enmity toward the Church and, according to Schwalbach, assailed euthanasia, which he described as murder, in the New Year's Eve sermon of 1941. Gröber held a protective arm over the German resistance worker Gertrud Luckner. Luckner organized, with the support of Gröber, an "Office for Religious War Relief" ("Kirchliche Kriegshilfsstelle") under the auspices of the Catholic
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Tony Liberatore Anthony "Tony" Liberatore (born 11 February 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented the in the Australian Football League (AFL). Liberatore is the only player to have won league best-and-fairest medals in all three grades of VFL/AFL football (under 19s, reserves and seniors). Liberatore is one of the shortest players to have played in the VFL/AFL competition and the shortest player to have won a Brownlow Medal. Playing as a rover, Liberatore was a long-time holder of the VFL/AFL record for most career tackles. Liberatore was born in Australia to Italian parents. Liberatore played junior football
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Israeli Premier League and in May 2009 he was released from his contract. In January 2010, He was transferred to Yokohama F. Marinos of J1 League, Japan. Pablo Bastianini Pablo Bastianini (born 9 November 1982 in Zárate, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine footballer who plays for the Coras de Tepic in the Ascenso MX. He started his footballing career in the youth divisions of Argentinos Juniors and Club Atlético Independiente. His professional debut was with Defensores de Belgrano in 2002 against Club Almagro in the Primera B Nacional, a game which finished 1-1. in 2003 he joined Quilmes where he
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Brian Townsend (poker player)
Praz Bansi Pramesh 'Praz' Bansi is a British professional poker player from London, England, who has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker and is part of the London-based poker group The Hitsquad. Prior to his career as a professional poker player, Praz Bansi spent five years working as a recruiting consultant but decided to quit and focus full-time on poker when he found that he had a talent for it. In an interview with Poker Player Magazine, Bansi stated that he downloaded poker software onto his work computer and spent most of his time playing online before
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event and the $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw event at the Grand Prix of Poker, both in 1987. Baxter also made seven final tables at various tournaments at the Super Bowl of Poker throughout the 1980s. He retired from playing in poker tournaments sometime in the late 1990s. His total tournament winnings during his career exceed $1,400,000. David Baxter (poker player) David Baxter is an American poker player from Corpus Christi, Texas, who won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker. Baxter first cashed in the WSOP in 1980 in a no limit hold'em event. He won his first
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Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Title: Dogs Playing Poker. Content: Dogs Playing Poker 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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