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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dogsplayingpoker_afriendinneed.jpeg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:"A Friend in Need", 1903]]
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4	''Dogs Playing Poker'' refers collectively to a series of oil {{paintings}} created by Creator/CassiusMarcellusCoolidge. All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleventh one, in which dogs are seated around a card table, has become well-known in the United States as an example of kitsch art in home decoration.
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6	To see the eighteen paintings, look at the [[ImageLinks/DogsPlayingPoker Image Links]] page.
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8	For ArtImitatesArt examples, see CaninesGamblingInACardGame.
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11	!!''Dogs Playing Poker'' provides examples of:
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13	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Several paintings feature the [[CivilizedAnimal civilized dogs]] with collars and [[FurIsClothing nothing more]]. In "Sitting up with a Sick Friend", two of them are wearing hats.
14	* CharacterActionTitle: Dogs (the characters) Playing (the action) Poker.
15	* CivilizedAnimal: As the name implies, the dogs are playing poker, with many of the dogs dressed in the fashion of the era. Not [[BeastMan Beast Men]], but actual dogs. One wonders how they can hold the cards without thumbs.
16	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The portfolio is called "Dogs Playing Poker" and all of the paintings are about dogs playing TabletopGame/{{poker}}. Or, at least, gambling and socializing in a manner where you could technically call it "playing poker".
17	* FixingTheGame: In "A Friend in Need", one of the dogs is using its rear paw to discretely pass an ace of clubs to its friend during a game of poker.
18	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: In "His Station and Four Aces", all of the dogs are elegantly clothed in two-piece suits and hats. One of the smaller dogs has shoes on and, since we can't see the other dogs' rear paws, it's implied they so do.
19	* HollywoodBoardGames: The reason why people find these artworks kitsch, it's because of the juxtaposition between something so mundane as a TabletopGame like poker and the weirdness of it being dogs playing it.
20	* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: The portfolio's name indicates that all of the paintings are about dogs who are, if not outright playing poker, doing something related to it.
21	* WhatWereTheySellingAgain: All but two of the paintings (the first and last) were commissioned to sell cigars, a fact that most people don't know.
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Context Art / DogsPlayingPoker