This first installment in the educational series "Dogs in Art" features C.M. Coolidge's iconic Dogs Playing Poker paintings. Coolidge remains was once dubbed “The most famous American artist you’ve never heard of." Despite the popularity of his paintings, critics didn't take them seriously. It's kitsch; the artistic equivalent of a fast food or a theme park. But his work has endured for over a century. 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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