I forgot to mention that your Furry History Project also does not mention Cassius Coolidge, whose “dogs playing poker” (or engaging in other human activities such as dancing and playing football) paintings were very popular from 1903, when he painted the first sixteen paintings of this series, into the 1920s.
Coolidge also invented, and patented (1874), the (usually) non-Furry “Comic Foregrounds” that were very popular at tourist parks and carnivals in the late 19th century/early 20th century, where a person can stick his or her head through a hole in a foreground painting and be photographed as a circus strong man or clown, a peasant riding a donkey, etc. These were infrequently anthropomorphic, such as a human-headed fierce lion.
I forgot to mention that your Furry History Project also does not mention Cassius Coolidge, whose “dogs playing poker” (or engaging in other human activities such as dancing and playing football) paintings were very popular from 1903, when he painted the first sixteen paintings of this series, into the 1920s.
Coolidge also invented, and patented (1874), the (usually) non-Furry “Comic Foregrounds” that were very popular at tourist parks and carnivals in the late 19th century/early 20th century, where a person can stick his or her head through a hole in a foreground painting and be photographed as a circus strong man or clown, a peasant riding a donkey, etc. These were infrequently anthropomorphic, such as a human-headed fierce lion.
http://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/gallery/coolidge/
Fred Patten