Dogs Playing Poker - refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. All the paintings in the series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the nine in which dogs are seated around a card table have become derisively well-known in the United States as examples of mainly working-class taste in home decoration. Critic Annette Ferrara describes Dogs Playing Poker as "indelibly burned into (the American collective-schlock subconscious) through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera."
The titles in the Dogs Playing Poker series are:
* A Bachelor's Dog
* A Bold Bluff
* Breach of Promise Suit
* A Friend in Need
* His Station and Four Aces
* New Year's Eve in Dog Ville
* One to Tie Two to Win
* Pinched with Four Aces
* Poker Sympathy
* Post Mortem
* The Reunion
* Riding the Goat
* Sitting up with a Sick Friend
* Stranger in Camp
* Ten Miles to a Garage
* Waterloo