An American artist with the magnificent name Cassius Marcellus Coolidge became famous for painting dogs playing poker.
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge could have been portraying the sitting members of the Tasmanian Upper House playing poker with the people’s Forestry assets.
Coolidge, the son of Quaker farmers, was born in upstate New York and named after the Senator Cassius Marcellus Clay: the anti slavery campaigner, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State and a Senator.
Fittingly Coolidge was known to his friends as “Cash.”
And so to the meaning I see decades later in those famous paintings:
In the first painting (above) Harriss holds all the aces whilst his cronies stand fast and confident; they will never be locked up or put on a leash.
Things start to unravel for Harriss in the second painting (below) as his connections to Ta Ann come back to haunt him, much to the amusement of his fellows.
This long series of topical paintings wil be used as illustrations as the story unfolds.
Comments over the identity of the players will oblige from the erudite of TT including Mr Cowell.
