Pamela colman smith

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 …

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

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Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Tin

“Once in a long before time before Queen Victoria came to reign over we . . .” This post features newspaper articles from Pixie’s 1907 visit to New York where she concentrated on …

Pamela Colman Smith, a queer woman of color, illustrated the world's most popular tarot deck (the Rider-Waite) but is rarely credited for it. Her work is beautiful. Article linked

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."

“'The Fool' card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot,1st edition (1909) designed by English/US artist, writer Pamela Colman Smith. It represents new beginnings, faith in the future, being inexperienced, beginner's luck, believing in the universe #womensart #AprilFoolsDay”