Pamela Colman Smith is the artist who illustrated the world’s first “mass market” tarot card deck, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. This deck is generally referred to as the Rider Waite Tarot, omitting Colman Smith’s name.
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Born in London in 1878 Colman Smith became an illustrator providing artwork for WB Yeats, Bram Stoker and more. She was a queer woman of colour, a strong supporter of women’s suffrage and mystic who forged her own path in life.
The boss of US Games, who continue to publish her deck, says she could have been a millionaire today. As it is, her tarot deck and many of her other works are an example of women’s work and art and contributions being continually undervalued. She died penniless in 1951.
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