Poker Lamp

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, a painter instantly recognizable music that gave the world the series of dogs playing poker, was born in 1844 into a family farmers' Quaker abolitionist was named after one of the most eloquent speakers cons slavery, called (with provisional anthropomorphism) "The Lion of White Hall." Nicknamed "Cash" by friends and relatives, he had no formal training whatsoever, but was very active, publishing drawings in the newspapers before he was 20.

In 1903 he was commissioned a series of paintings on his favorite theme: Saint Bernard dogs and engaged in human activity. On nine of the sixteen tables and well behaved dogs ways to drink beer and whiskey, smoke cigars and pipes, and play five-card poker. And furry coats of fur or flannel suits, they are filled with a comfortable room with the only light source is a shaded lamp above the table.

The players are established bourgeois and seem to be reasonably well behaved gentlemen, perhaps not quite tame, but good enough. The tables show roughly the same period as that described in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America. But Coolidge did not focus on greed and violence illegal underground club, but it shows poker finally emerge from obscurity into reality criminal simpler, where members of decent society probably never bet more than pennies symbolic and left some drops of bourbon when their wives were not looking. Poker entertainment became common for most American men, and not a way to make money fast and dangerous.

By 1875, respectable people attended great sessions poker night. At least one month, Poker Chips, has been devoted to the game and most periodicals have published related articles. At the turn of the century, unified rules for the draw of poker was first distributed among all clubs of poker. Reporters suggested that baseball had ceased to be the national sport.

Little by little, unrelated to any criminal conspiracy, the opportunity to play poker with the ability to handle a gun has become the basic skills of a real man. Men who have played a good poker were generally very good soldiers, good sheriffs, and good politicians. In the spring of 1918 in Europe, the game is the most popular mode of entertainment including Harry Truman and his two million soldiers. Truman perfected his drawing and stud poker as an artillery officer. When the peace treaty was signed, waiting to be shipped home, he and his friends spent time fighting endless games of poker which continued even after arriving home.

The ability to bluff and bet big intelligent, and the risk was considered cost-effective, essentially identical to the ability to survive the battle to survive in dangerous jobs in law enforcement, or do any work requires brains and brawn.

Coolidge had ample opportunity to observe the types, clothing, maps, clubs and basement where games were regularly organized. To add a touch of humor alive anthropomorphic, he created memorable performances of the middle class enjoying a game by then at least 200 years.