However, Smith’s most lasting artistic contribution was undoubtedly her designs for the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Made in collaboration with mystic and scholar A.E. Waite, Smith created the Art ...

Some are in conversation with imagery from the Rider Waite Smith deck, filtered through the artists’ imagination; others reinvent the wheel. As for picking a deck? Frances Naude, tarot reader ...

who commissioned Smith to design, under his close supervision, the Rider-Waite tarot deck for the Rider and Company publishing house. Waite, like Smith and Yeats, was a member of the legendary ...

In December 1909, William Rider & Son published a deck of cards simply called “the Tarot,” developed by Arthur E. Waite, a poet and mystic born in Brooklyn, and Pamela Colman Smith ...

While the best-known deck may be the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, today’s artists and authors bring their own traditions and twists, adding contemporary imagery and modern psychology to the mix.

Now the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck is her legacy — and has brought her renewed recognition. (RNS) — A little-known 20th-century artist and occultist, Pamela Colman Smith, is featured in a ...

the original deck was expanded and popularized by 18th-century French occultists; and again later in the 20th century, when modern tarot was born thanks to the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, published in ...

Today, most tarot decks are based on the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, which was first published in 1909. It features a cast of white characters, and the cards that portray romantic and familial ...

12.25.24 The Fool: Pamela Coleman-Smith's artful rendition of The Fool in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck is often used to represent Tarot in general. Early classical versions of The Fool card ...

11.25.24 The Fool: Pamela Coleman-Smith's artful rendition of The Fool in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck is often used to ...