• Cassius Marcellus CoolidgeNov 12, 1844 - Jan 24, 1934

• Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, an American artist, he did a lot of things over the course of his life: he was a druggist, a sign painter and founded both a bank and a newspaper. But he is best remembered for being the guy who painted those poker playing dogs - and half a century prior to the Surrealism movement, at that.