{"id":27,"date":"2005-02-16T05:21:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T09:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=27"},"modified":"2005-02-16T05:21:32","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T09:21:32","slug":"arf-for-arfs-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/arf-for-arfs-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Arf for Arf&#8217;s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=left>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"coolidge.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/02\/16\/news\/newsmakers\/poker_dogs\/coolidge_boldbluff.03.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" border=1\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This just in: Two of C.M. Coolidge&#8217;s &#8220;dogs playing poker&#8221; paintings have sold at a New York auction for $590,400. Which is a record&#8211;but if anything, it seems low to me in relation to their significance. (And I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t know about the auction, since I happen to be in the Big Apple at the moment.)<\/p>\n<p>CNN has a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/02\/16\/news\/newsmakers\/poker_dogs\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">nice story on the sale<\/a> and on Coolidge&#8217;s work in general. (Among other things, the article reveals that he also invented those &#8220;life-size Boardwalk cutouts into which one&#8217;s head is placed, allowing the person to be photographed as a character or animal.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably never own a Coolidge original, but I&#8217;m tickled to say that I do have two vintage calendars with his prints&#8211;which is how his work was intended to be displayed. (In one, the dogs are shooting craps; in the other, &#8220;Staying Up With a Sick Friend,&#8221; their wives are busting into their party.) I have these nicely framed and on the wall, and they&#8217;re one of the best presents that my Aunt Liz (or anyone) has ever given me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: Two of C.M. Coolidge&#8217;s &#8220;dogs playing poker&#8221; paintings have sold at a New York auction for $590,400. Which is a record&#8211;but if anything, it seems low to me in relation to their significance. (And I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t know about the auction, since I happen to be in the Big Apple at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/arf-for-arfs-sake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arf for Arf&#8217;s Sake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}