I am one of America's premier pet portrait artists, Constance Depler Coleman. In the 1905’s I combined my love of animals with the fun of going out with friends. I created a wide range of drawings in which I gave fun personalities to dogs and drew them sitting at the bar, drinking, dancing, playing cards, and in general, cavorting the night away in entertaining scenes – the Great Dane sailor talking to the Fi-Fi poodle or the suave Doberman Pincer trying to charm the Boxer’s girl. These may seem like unusual scenarios, but these “Bar Hounds”® are all part of the playful world...more
