And from those humble beginnings we end up at a remarkable place. Because just this week, Coolidge's incredible masterpiece "Poker Game" sold for $658,000 through Southeby's.

New York City's art museum scene has gone to the dogs. The new American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog features life-sized sculptures and paintings of canines through the ages.

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, the wry commercial artist who gave the world dogs playing poker, was born in upstate New York in 1844 to abolitionist Quaker farmers, who named him after one of the ...

But with Dogs Playing Poker catching on through calendar and poster sales, Coolidge was able to sell some of the original paintings for $2000 to $10,000. 4. Dogs Playing Poker has never received ...

And so, many paintings were sold to individuals and governments as a means to help it reach a wider audience. Here we mention the 6 most expensive paintings ever sold and for how much. Sign In ...

A 'forgotten' painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn has been sold at auction for a whopping $1.4 million (around Rs 11.75 crore). The painting, titled 'Portrait of a ...

Four oil paintings have been discovered to be the work of 17th-Century Dutch master Rembrandt. The works, which were thought to have been painted by Rembrandt's pupils, have been put on show at the ...

There's a market for everything. Need proof? A painting of dogs playing poker, by little-known American artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, was recently purchased at Doyle New York for $193,000 ...

New York City's art museum scene has gone to the dogs. The new American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog features life-sized sculptures and paintings of canines through the ages.