Pamela colman smith

An exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is highlighting Pamela Colman Smith's contributions to the development of Modernism.

Artist. She received notoriety as the co-designer and artist of the Rider-Waite deck of Tarot cards, which was made in April of 1909. Using Rider Publisher, she and Arthur Edward Waite, an author and occultist, were the co-designer of these world-wide-known Rider-Waite Tarot cards. To supplement the cards, Waite wrote...

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The most popular tarot deck in the western world was illustrated by a queer woman who is often ignored in esoteric history and omitted from the deck itself. Read about how awesome she is here!

Photograph by Alice Boughton from the Brooklyn Life magazine, January, 1907. Thanks to the Brooklyn Public Library for a better resolution photograph than I was able to get previously.

"Once in a dream", The Green Sheaf, No 2, 1903 Edited, Published and Sold by Pamela Colman Smith." I saw a great church with an long , narrow door, and behind it rose a green hill. There was a garden on the top with arches cut in box. The rooks cawed overhead. As I walked at the foot of the hill I came to the churchyard, where many lilies grew; and close by the church door was a sandstone tomb with two figures carved on it. A foot of one them began to way."

Today, more than 100 million copies of Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot card designs, the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, are in circulation in over 20 countries, making it the most popular set ever made.

Another chance find at the Internet Archive. This small book from 1913 is an appraisal of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes written by noted actress Ellen Terry and with illustrations—which Archive.…

N NOVEMBER of 1909, Pixie wrote Alfred Stieglitz that she had “just finished a big job for very little cash!” These were the black and white designs for a pack of Tarot cards. She also …