Encyclopedia > Pamela Colman Smith

  Article Content

Pamela Colman Smith

Pamela Colman Smith (1878 - 1951) was an artist, illustrator, and writer. Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite.

Smith was born in England to American parents, and grew up in Jamaica. She toured with the theatre company of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving[?] in the late 1890s, where she joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and met Waite. She also did a great deal of illustration work for William Butler Yeats and his brother Jack[?], but apart from this deck, her art found little commercial success.

In addition to the tarot deck, Smith wrote and illustrated several books about Jamaican folklore, including Annancy Stories (1902) which were about Jamaican versions of tales involving the traditional African folk figure Anansi the Spider.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Islandia, New York

... couples living together, 11.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.2% are non-families. 18.8% of all households are made up of individuals and ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 30.6 ms