Illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite tarot deck (1909, reprinted in 1937) (courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) As Halloween approaches, it offers a chance to delve ...

The revolution in modern day tarot came and went with little fanfare — and little compensation — for two artists in the United Kingdom, both with deep ties to Brooklyn. In December 1909, William Rider ...

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(CNN) — In a 1908 article, British artist, illustrator and costume designer Pamela Colman Smith shared how she thought paintings should be viewed. “Learn from everything, see everything, and above all ...

She hand-painted around 80 illustrations for the Rider-Waite deck, which is still used around the world to predict destinies. Pamela Colman Smith in the early 1900s. While Colman Smith was not a tarot ...

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My social circle of lapsed Catholics, exvangelicals, and other “deconstructing” Christians may have lost the narrative threads we followed for much of our lives, but we can rattle off our rising signs ...