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Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844 - 1934) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Cassius Coolidge is known for Dogs playing poker, human genre, cartoons.

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, also known as Cash Coolidge, created the whimsical "Poker Dogs," a series of oil paintings made in the 1920s depicting a group not only playing poker but engaged in other usually human activities.

He was born on September 18, 1844 on a farm between the small towns of Antwerp and Philadelphia, New York.  Called "Cash" by his friends, he was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, the brother of the famous statesmen Henry Clay. According to the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Antwerp Liberal Literary Institute, he was a student there from March 1861 through August 1863. He received certificates from the State and National Business College in March 1864.

Coolidge, as a child, sketched portraits and scenes of the farm.  Later in life, a co-worker saw drawings by Cash and thought he was wasting his talent.  Coolidge went to New York City where he received formal art lessons from a portrait painter, but returned home   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6937 characters.]  Artist bio

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