The Woman Behind The World’s Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History
For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.
The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.
Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.
CNN
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Pamela Colman Smith - The Blue Cat (1907)
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Pamela Colman Smith, "The City of Coral" from Susan and the Mermaid, December 1912 issue of The Delineator magazine
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I give you mon petit chou. Lilibet. Elizabeth. The Queen.
All 3 versions of The Crown’s Elizabeth & Philip being adorable.*
S1 & 2: Claire Foy & Matt Smith 🔥😈⚡
S3 & 4: Olivia Colman & Tobias Menzies 💋💕🥰
S5 & 6: Imelda Staunton & Jonathan Pryce 👴🏻👵🏼❤️
*this is for 'the shippers', AKA me. Sail away, sail away (as Enya warbled in the '90's.)
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The Crown: Stellar Cast
Photo: Buzzfeed Nov 14, 2022
Netflix just dropped Season 5 of The Crown... there's a brand new cast of actors playing the royals, continuing the show's tradition of recasting its major roles every two seasons. ♚
Queen Elizaebeth II (Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Imelda Staunton)
Prince Philip (Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies, and Jonathan Pryce)
Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham Carter, and Lesley Manville)
Peter Townsend (Ben Miles and Timothy Dalton)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon (Matthew GoodE and Ben Daniels)
Princess Diana (Emma Corrin and Elizabeth Debicki)
Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor and Dominic West)
Princess Anne (Erin Doherty and Claudia Harrison)
The Queen Mother (Victoria Hamilton, Marion Bailey, and Marcia Warren)
Lord Mountbatten (Greg Wise and Charles Dance)
Duke of Windsor (Alex Jennings and Derek Jacobi as Edward)
Duchess of Windsor (Lia Williams and Geraldine Chaplin)
Camilla Parker Bowles (Emerlad Fennell and Olivia williams)
Prince Andrews (Tom Byrne and James Murray)
Prince Edward (Angus Imrie and Sam Woolf)
Andrew Parker Bowles (Andrew Buchan and Daniel Flynn as Andrew)
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Pamela Colman Smith - "Susan and the Mermaid" - The City of Coral (1912)
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The Tempest by Pamela Colman Smith (1878 - 1951),
watercolor of Caliban
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Meanwhile on a bench in Broadchurch
found on: pinterest
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