It’s a Dog’s Life According to Cassius Coolidge

Have you ever imagined a world dominated by animals? Have you read Orwell’s Animal Farm and wondered what it would be like to live in such a world? Well, then brace yourselves for Cassius Coolidge’s paintings where dogs are the main characters!

1. His Station and Four Aces

Coolidge was an American artist born in 1844 in Antwerp, New York. He worked as a sign painter, druggist, farmer. Although he didn’t have formal art training, he made caricatures for newspapers and oil paintings. Yet he is most famous for his anthropomorphic depictions of dogs.

2. Poker Game

He made a series of 16 paintings depicting dogs in situations typical of humans. He showed them dancing, playing baseball or poker, or travelling.

3. Sitting up with a Sick Friend

In 1903 Coolidge began working for an advertising company Brown & Bigelow. He painted oil paintings which later became distributed as hundreds of thousands of posters, calendars, and leaflets. Many tobacco firms got interested in his work and bought the copies to give them out as advertising freebies.

You will find more of these funny Cassius Coolidge’s paintings here. There are not only the dogs playing cards but also celebrating New Year’s Eve, playing pool, being on a court, cheering for their favorite football team, and many more!