Thank you! I actually had a full set of “Dogs Playing Poker” (If we’re agreed that there are four prints in the meme) that I actually had framed . In our first apartment with my HS friend we had the hallway lined with poker dogs, and ended with her gigantor, gas station-bought Velvet Elvis.
Man. Good times.
Doncha mean the kitty?
I’d rather look at dogs (or cats) playing poker (or pool) than anything by this guy. Who is all pompously serious about his dreck…
Shit, I saw a “Cats Playing Poker” in the style of the original dogs version at “Antiques on Second” in Milwaukee two days ago. It was this painting , done in Coolidge’s style.
Kinda wish I picked it up now.
Here’s a better picture of the scene. The painting I saw was exactly that scene, just done in perfect imitation of Coolidge.
OK, maybe it wasn’t “perfect imitation” of Coolidge, but this is the painting I was thinking of.
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“Why? Why? Why?”
Old Bingo drank a glass of beer, belched, and spoke.
“Why not?”
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Old Bingo knew his art. 
Target acquired! That’s sweet!
No offense, but isn’t this one of those, “if you have to ask, you’ll never know” kind of questions?
Somehow my art history teachers never appreciated that answer.
“Why is Dogs Playing Poker considered bad art?”
Because of pretentious doodyheads that wouldn’t know talent if it humped them in the leg.
A Friend In Need is my all time favorite painting, I have a framed poster of it hanging in my room. Any haters can go lick themselves.
No, no. That doesn’t work. Cats should not be playing poker. Cats should be . . . strip tease dancing. I mean the real thing, da-da-da-daah, da-da-da-DAAH, off comes one long glove; not like nowadays where the dancer starts her act naked or all-but, I can picture cats doing that too but it ain’t, ya know, period. Yes, I know, guys playing poker is timeless, guys still do it, but, still, DPP really belongs to the strip-tease age.
Of, and, of course, the audience should be all drooling, howling dogs.
Advertising art. IOW, what we’re dealing with here is the graphic-art equivalent of the Armour Hot Dog song and the fact that everyone knows it.
Ha !
That insight into it is great never thought of that before. I just might search out Dogs Playing Poker piece now.
“Don’t need no lava lamp
Don’t need no soap-on-a-rope
No pictures of Mexican kids with those really big eyes
Or dogs playing poker”
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Velvet Elvis
Let’s see, 1903 – that puts DPP on the cusp of the Gay Nineties and the Edwardian Era. Amazing it’s held up so well.
If your dumb enough to play poker with Nixon, you deserve to get swindled.
If you read Peter Straub’s new horror novel, A Dark Matter you’ll find the painting (and the dogs in it) playing a most unexpected and terrifying role.
Those who like DPP need to stop by a Lost Dog Café whenever around DC.
Lost Dog South (Columbia Pike & Walter Reed)
Lost Dog North (Washington Blvd. & McKinley Road)
There’s one in McLean (The Commons Shopping Center) as well but I can’t find any pictures of the interior. Presumably more of the same.
For ailurophiles, they also have a Stray Cat Café in the same strip as the North Arlington location, on the opposite end.
