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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 AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for arn folk figure AnansiAnansi is one of the most important and famous gods of west African lore. He is a trickster and a culture hero, who acts on behalf of Nyame (his father, the sky god) and brings rain to stop fires and performing other duties for him. Eventually, Anansi was the Spider.
Smith, Pamela Colman
Smith, Pamela Colman
Smith, Pamela Colman
Smith, Pamela Colman
