Saturday, February 19, 2011
Did A Group Of Poker Playing Dogs Help Bring Poker Out Into The Light
Born in 1844 to a family of abolitionist Quaker farmers, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, nicknamed "Cash" by his friends and family, became an instantly recognized commercial artist with the series of Dogs Playing Poker he gave to the world. He is named after one of the most eloquent of orators against slavery, nicknamed "The Lion Of White Hall" as an anthropomorphic tribute to the township in which he lived. Mr. Coolidge (Cash) had no professional training in the arts whatsoever. Nonetheless, he
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