The Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set
The Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set was released to mark the hundredth anniversary of the original Rider-Waite deck and stands as one of the most thoughtfully assembled tribute sets in tarot publishing. At its center is the Smith-Waite Centennial Edition, reproduced directly from the 1909 originals with the original coloring intact. The set also includes a substantial book by Stuart R. Kaplan presenting over a hundred examples of Smith's non-tarot art, showing the full breadth of her work as an illustrator, theatrical designer, and writer.
A reprint of Arthur Edward Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot is included alongside two portrait prints of Smith, six color postcards of her artwork, a spread sheet guide, and a drawstring organza bag for the cards. Everything is packaged in a deluxe keepsake case. It is a fitting acknowledgment of an artist whose contribution to tarot was enormous but whose name was obscured for far too long.
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Pamela Colman Smith was an artist, illustrator, and writer born in 1878 in London. She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow, and after graduating returned to England where she became known as an illustrator and theatrical designer. A member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, she was commissioned by Arthur Edward Waite in 1909 to illustrate the tarot deck that still bears his name and the publisher's name rather than hers. She brought considerable artistic skill and, according to Waite, genuine clairvoyant perception to the work. She never received royalties from the deck's enormous success. She died in Cornwall in 1951, and the tarot community has increasingly recognized her central contribution by using the name Rider-Waite-Smith or Waite-Smith.
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