| NavBar | ||||||
|
| Search |
| Translate |
| Sponsers |
|
Hosting Provided By: 
|
Welcome to DogsPlayingPoker.org
Welcome to DogsPlayingPoker.org, one of (if not the) biggest resource for all things with dogs playing poker. There are pictures of most of the paintings, information about the artist, cheap ripoffs of the works, and lots of other stuff. Go check it out..NOW!
News
2008-4-19 17:45:21
Auction of More Coolidge Items
Doyle New York has come through again with respect to Coolidge. Although there will be no poker dog paintings involved, there have half a dozen lots of personal Coolidge works from his daughter's estate. The items up for auction are mainly sketches and manuscripts by Coolidge. The highlight, I think, is the full manuscript of his play, King Gallinipper. There are at least a little cheaper than the dogs playing poker paintings, but are still a little more than I can justify spending. As always, I take donations.
- King Gallinipper. A comic opera in three acts.
- Coolidge's comic photo-caricature foregrounds.
- Daddy Gander. Written and illustrated by C. M. Coolidge
- Memorandums of place cards
- Kindergarten Alphabet, Western Heiress
- Rail-Road building across the United States from the Atlantic to Pacific.
- Collection of artist sketchbooks, five large and five small
2008-4-5 16:40:13
Exciting DPP News!
A couple of neat news items have crossed my desk. The first one is that a DPP themed watch is scheduled to be released by a high end watch maker (it should go well with matching cufflinks).
Even more important though, is that Mount Vernon, Iowa's annual Chalk the Walk festival will feature a creation of A Bold Bluff. A small army will each take a small square, creating a large mosaic of the poker dogs by the end. Past images have included A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Stone City by Iowa's own Grant Wood so Coolidge is in with some good company. But what makes this event even better is that it is taking place about ten miles from my house! So I know where I will be on May 4th, or course wearing a DPP shirt.
2008-02-21 18:03:57
The auctions for Coolidge's paintings have gone through. "Only a Pair of Deuces" (also know under the title "Waterloo") sold for $160,000 while "A Breach of Promise Suit" went for a mere $26,000. Unfortunately I was not the high bidder on either.
2008-01-27 19:42:36
Well, more Coolidge works will be auctioned off in February by Doyle New York. The paintings are "Only a Pair of Deuces" (also know under the title "Waterloo") and "A Breach of Promise Suit". It appears that these were in possession of his daughter, Marcella Coolidge, until her passing last year. This is auction is part of her estate. Details can be found at AskArt.com's Cassius Coolidge page. Unfortunately you have to pay money to subscribe to the site to get any really useful information. Happy bidding to everyone. I think these will be out of my price range as well though.
2008-01-22 22:02:02
After way too long and much neglect, I have stopped mooching off my alumni status and actually got real hosting for DogsPlayingPoker.org. No updates have been done, but those will be coming sometime "soon." Unfortunately I am lazy/busy so it will take some time. This site is not dead!
2007-03-09 20:53:14
For those of you still trying to make a quick buck off old dogs playing poker paintings, maybe you should check out Middle Tennessee State University actions. They are selling an old print they found in the rubble of a demolished building and hoping to get twenty bucks. Instead of getting top dollar at Sotheby's, they are selling it "at Southern Bee's, that gallery beside the Exxon station on Highway 96." Although if you school is selling small items like that to raise funds, I think you are in real trouble.
2006-8-13 14:23:45
Dogs playing poker made it into the Top 5 dogs for the 21st century on MSNBC. I think their list could use some work, but at least they did not leave off this time honored favorite.
2006-5-9 22:35:19
American Brain Tumor and the Chicago Marathon
I will be running the Chicago Marathon this fall in support of the American Brain Tumor Association. My dad was diagnosed with brain cancer in February 2005, and I am doing this race in honor of him. The whole story and details can be found on my fundraising page. Although I registered a while ago, I just created my fundraising pages, so the amount raised is currently $0. Please help me in increasing this. I will also be putting effort into getting offline people I know to contribute, although probably not till closer to race time. Whether $1 or $100, any amount is appreciated and goes to brain tumor research.
2006-1-28 10:33:46
Coolidge Once Again For Sale
You may think just because this site is very rarely updated that it is dead, but alas that is just barely not the case. I merely get distracted very easily, and I generally don't have lots of more information to add. Today, however, I pass along that Forbes is reporting that another Coolidge painting is being auctioned in Doyle's annual Dogs in Art auction. A Fairy Story, 1908" (be sure to press the "stop" link at the top of that page, or the slide show will automagically move to another picture), is not one of the famous poker playing ones, but instead depicts a dog reading to another dog. It is expected to fetch between $25K and $35K so it is once again slightly out of my reach. Of course, the Coolidge last year was expected to fetch around that same amount, but went for almost $600,000. I will once again this year accept generous donations of anyone willing to bid on this painting for me.
2005-2-16 21:33:36
News Coverage
There has actually been quite a bit of news coverage about the auctions. Every where from the UK to the front page of CNN. This site was linked from CNN's article. (Hopefully that won't drive too much traffic to my generous hosting provider and get them mad at me, again). Below is a list of news articles about the auctions. Some of them may require a registration.
- CNN
- The Sun (UK)
- New York Daily News
- New York Sun
- Poker Magazine
- The liberals at NPR
- CBS News
Oh ya, and if you own a print of the dogs playing poker paitings, it isn't worth half a million dollars. You might be able to get $10 for it on eBay. So don't ask me. And for those of you who did, I already answered that question a while ago.
Read old news archives.
Content Update
IMPORTANT: Please read the content update as to why there have been changes in the site and it seems incomplete.
Why?
Why does this site even exist? In short, because I think dogs playing poker is cool. I have always loved doogies (especially Saint Bernards) and just having them sitting there playing poker rules.
