LOVE WINS 48" x 48"
LOVE WINS - Semi Abstract mixed media work on canvas for Chris Cleary & family.
12oz canvas 48" x 48" -- Approximate size
This is a loose canvas and not stretched or mounted. Buyer must mount and stretch canvas unless otherwise noted.
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To include french bulldog, representations of Chris and 3 daughters based on Gambling Dogs:
A work that has penetrated every pore of popular culture, Dogs Playing Poker was first painted in 1894 by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, an American artist who worked several odd jobs before he turned to painting. However, the work refers to no just one painting, but eighteen of them. In addition to the artist’s original Poker Game from 1894, there are sixteen other oil paintings commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, and an additional 1910 painting. All of these paintings are populated by comical, humanized dogs, while only nine paintings feature dogs playing poker.
With their expressive faces, smoker pipes, and whiskey glasses, Coolidge’s poker dogs have become iconic. Critic Annette Ferrara has described Dogs Playing Poker as “indelibly burned into … the American collective-schlock subconscious … through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera”.
In 1894, he painted “Poker Game” using oil on canvas, and the advertising firm Brown & Bigelow loved it so much that they hired him to produce a series of similar artworks featuring dogs playing poker, which they used to advertise cigars. He found the most success by painting dogs in various human situations.
from FB:
Chris "Maybe it could be a variety of things like different characters have a different representation. I don’t know this is your area of expertise. I going to be happy with whatever you come up with."