Pamela colman smith

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...

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

Pamela Coleman Smith was best known for her paintings for the Rider Waite Tarot deck but I favor the work she did as an intuitive artist. She often went to concerts with her sketch book and would sketch images that emerged for her from the music. Google Image Result for http://americanart.si.edu/images/1984/1984.24_1a.jpg

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.

Beyond the Paint podcast celebrates the visionary artist Pamela Colman Smith in two parts. Part 1, today's episode, focuses and highlights aspects of Smith's artistic life and practice. . Part 2-will take a deep dive into Smith's legacy as illustrator for the Rider-Waite tarot deck, a commission she described as "big job for very little cash." . Resources for this episode include Yale Art Gallery and the seminal text "Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story" by Stephen R. Kaplan with…

1. French Facade Fakery Facades is an ongoing series by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (previously) which strips isolated buildings of everything but their forward-facing exteriors. It reminds me of another photography project that turned Paris into a giant film set. Found

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!

"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."

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 …