Cassius Coolidge Set 2 Art Prints Dogs Playing Poker

This vintage Cassius Coolidge print portfolio produced by Brown & Bigelow in the early 1970's, unlike most Coolidge reproductions produced in the last 5 years. The set features two prints, "A friend in need" and "His station and four aces". After a trip to Europe in 1873 that Coolidge turned up in Rochester, New York, as the portraitist of dogs whose life style mirrored the successful middle-class humans of his time. Coolidge's first customers were the cigar companies, who printed copies of his paintings for giveaways. His fortunes rose when he signed a contract with the printers Brown & Bigelow, copies of his dog-genre subjects as advertising posters, calendars and prints. Cassius married late and had one daughter at the age of 66. He died in his nineties in the 1930's. The print dimensions are all 10" x 8" and are in brand new, mint condition.