“Dogs Playing Poker” is a series of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. The first painting, titled “Poker Game,” was created in 1894, followed by a series of sixteen paintings commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. The series depicts anthropomorphized dogs engaging in various human activities, most famously playing poker. Read more about the series here.

View the 15 paintings in the Brown & Bigelow series below:

A Bold Bluff

A Friend in Need

A Waterloo

Breach of Promise Suit

Sitting up with a Sick Friend

Poker Sympathy

Stranger in Camp

Riding the Goat

Pinched with Four Aces

Post Mortem

New Year’s Eve in Dogville

The Reunion

Ten Miles to a Garage

One to Tie Two to Win

A Bachelor’s Dog