A Friend in Need Petit Point Pillow

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A Friend in Need Petit Point Pillow Dogs Playing... Cards Cassius Marcellus Coolidge 1844-1934 (perhaps more properly titled, "Dogs Smoking Cigars") While the Civl War raged, Cassius "Cash" Coolidge, raised as a Quaker, began a career as a commercial artist. His parents, being farmers, could not afford formal training for Cash, but his natural artistic ability coupled with a wry sense of humor and wit served him well. Besides producing the well know 16 piece, "Dogs Playing..." series in 1903 (which was actually commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to show dogs smoking the cigars they were adverting), it was Cash's original idea to produce life-sized carnival cut-outs where visitors frame their own face for posed photographs of themselves as comic characters. (photography was new, back then, eh?) Pictured here is "A Friend in Need" (because the bulldog in the foreground is slipping the fourth ace to his neighbor). Another of Coolidge's works, A Bold Bluff, recently sold, along with a second from the original series, for half a million dollars.

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Description	A Friend in Need Petit Point Pillow Dogs Playing... Cards Cassius Marcellus Coolidge 1844-1934 (perhaps more properly titled, "Dogs Smoking Cigars") While the Civl War raged, Cassius "Cash" Coolidge, raised as a Quaker, began a career as a commercial artist. His parents, being farmers, could not afford formal training for Cash, but his natural artistic ability coupled with a wry sense of humor and wit served him well. Besides producing the well know 16 piece, "Dogs Playing..." series in 1903 (which was actually commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to show dogs smoking the cigars they were adverting), it was Cash's original idea to produce life-sized carnival cut-outs where visitors frame their own face for posed photographs of themselves as comic characters. (photography was new, back then, eh?) Pictured here is "A Friend in Need" (because the bulldog in the foreground is slipping the fourth ace to his neighbor). Another of Coolidge's works, A Bold Bluff, recently sold, along with a second from the original series, for half a million dollars.
Short Description	A Friend in Need Petit Point Pillow Petit Point Cotton Tassel Trim Face is 100 percent virgin natural vegetable dyed wool Imported from Australia and New Zealand Back is 100 percent cotton velvet Tan back Feather and Down Insert Approximately 18x22
SKU	118p11dgar 2832 friend in need
StockAvailability	Standard 2-3 weeks

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