I turn now to the hallowed subject, Dogs Playing Poker. Who doesn't know the painting? It it possibly the most recognizable of all American Paintings? The "painting" is actually a group of sixteen paintings, bracketed on the ends by two additional paintings, all of which were completed as advertisements for the Brown and Bigelow cigar company by a former sign painter named Cassius Marcellus Coolidge--aka "Kash Koolidge."  The paintings are generally quite famous--though two, "Poker Game" (1894) and "A Friend in Need" (1903) are by far the best known. And, they are going for real money on the auction block. 

Hope you enjoy the podcast. 
Dr. Otis Brown 

Keywords:
Cash Coolidge (Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Kash Koolidge)
Edourd Manet
Claude Monet 
Titian
Diego Velazquez
Ovid 
Dogs Playing Poker
"A Friend in Need"
"Poker Game" 
"The Rape of Europa" 
"Las Hilanderas" (The Spinners, The Fable of Arachne)