Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck
The New York Times••entertainment
Key Points:
- Pamela Colman Smith, the artist behind the iconic Rider-Waite tarot deck, created around 80 hand-painted illustrations that have been used worldwide to predict destinies, with over 100 million copies sold in more than 20 countries.
- Although not a tarot reader herself, Smith's life was marked by excitement, mystique, and an interest in magic, which was reflected in her artwork and creative pursuits.
- Beyond her work as an artist, Smith was an author, publisher, women's suffragist, traveler, storyteller, and mystic, who later in life converted to Catholicism and helped revive a chapel in the English countryside.
- Despite her significant cultural impact, Smith's death in 1951 went largely un
