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Other DPP People
There are some other people in this world have had strange and/or interesting experiences related to Cassius Coolidge. I don't think any of them are quite as obsessed as I am, but they still have interesting stories themselves.
Herman Koranek
Ok, this is one guy who I must admit probably does have more of a problem obsessing with Coolidge than I do. I know, this is quite shocking, but apparently true. Herman Koranek is a bachelor who lives in Virginia Beach with his mutt McCauley. He has 8 Cassius Coolidge paintings hanging on his walls, with 15 in his collection. He really appreciates the art in Coolidge's paintings. It gives him "as much thrill from this as a Rembrandt." His favorite painting is the "sympathetic" work A Friend in Need which almost makes him cry sometimes. An he considers the velvet version of dogs playing poker "tacky." How come I fear this is what I will be like after I get out of college and get my own place?
The article that I got this information from is itself really well written, and I would encourage you to read it. Unfortunately, you have to pay $1 to view the article in the Virginian-Pilot's archives, but that shouldn't break the bank. The article can be found here. It was printed on July 5, 1997. If you search for "poker dog" in 1997 you will find it.
Bruce Giese
I stumbled across this guy's story while I was searching for other Coolidge stuff, but it is still interesting in of itself. He was looking to by a Coolidge print for his son on eBay (there are plenty of them). He ended up bidding for an auction for 8 prints. Unfortunately for him, he bid over a day before the auction ended and ended up in getting in a bidding war for the prints. He ended up paying $109 + shipping for the prints. As he puts it: "I can feel like I just paid about 5 times too much for used, unframed prints of freakin' dogs playing freakin' poker! Or I can say that we'll look back on this and laugh every time we look at those prints on my son's walls, knowing that I can boast to guests, 'I paid over a hundred dollars just for the prints.'" Another bad thing for him was that after doing some quick searching for the prints, he found a site claiming that a print was worth $75. Thus, he thinks he got 75 * 8 or $600 worth of prints for 100 bucks. I've seen those pages claiming the $75 (they are all copy and pasts of other pages), and they aren't true. The paintings are in public domain and I have some beach front property in Arizona to sell to anywho who paid $75 for an unframed print. I'm not trying to bash this guy or anything, afterall it was only $14 a print, which is reasonable.
Bruce's own version of his adventure (which this account is adapted from) can be read here.
Kim I. Martin
This person emailed me a link containing her own adaptations of dogs in art. While not quite poker in nature, she has taken many famous paintings, such as the Mona Lisa or The Scream and replaced the people in them with dogs. They are pretty good, and I suggest you go look at them. They can be viewed here.
