Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Illustration
Date and Place of Birth:
September 18, 1844, Antwerp, New York
Life:
C. M. "Cash" Coolidge did a lot of things over the course of his life: he was a druggist, a sign painter and founded both a bank and a newspaper. But he is best remembered for being the guy who painted those poker playing dogs - and half a century prior to the Surrealism movement, at that. Additionally, he invented something that carnival-goers have almost certainly seen: those "cut-outs" (plywood props with painted figures on them, into which one inserts his/her head and has a picture taken).
Important Works:
All were painted in the early 1900s
- A Bachelor's Dog
- A Bold Bluff
- A Friend in Need
- Pinched With Four Aces
Date and Place of Death:
January 13, 1934, New York City
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