page_title: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dogs playing poker
context_page_description: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings Dogs Playing Poker. Known as "Cash" or "Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.
context_section_description: After leaving the family farm in the early 1860s, Coolidge had many careers. Between 1868 and 1872 he worked as a druggist and sign painter, founded a bank and a newspaper, then moved from Antwerp, New York, to Rochester, where he started painting dogs in human situations.
caption: Poker Game, oil on canvas, 1894
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