Well, back to finish last nights work. My third day on Pixie Shrine.
The Strand Magazine (Vol xxxv july 1908 no210)
The issue numbering and everything else seems totally screwed up. Just click on the pdf link and download it and it should be right.
- Pictures In Music (pg 647 - 652 of the actual issue/pg57-61 of the google books pdf.)
- Another article on Pixie's 'synesthesia' and it's role in her art. (The other one being "The Craftsman -October 1912 MacDonald, M. Irwin-The Fairy Faith And Pictured Music Of Pamela Colman Smith", which I linked to at the end of my opening post, where there is a very nice large version of the portrait gracing both this shrine and her wikipedia page.)
- 5 pics in B/W that look like they mightt have been in color originally. There is no color in the magazine. I'm pretty sure they had color printing back then. It could be that Google books just made the pdf all B/W
http://books.google.com/books?id=ehgDAA ... 08&f=false
The Occult Art Gallery Website
- 2 full pages devoted to documenting all the art published by Pixie ! Many, many mid-rez jpgs from each entry. If I had found this first, I would have stopped !!! The jpgs are smaller than you will find from the links I've given above. But it is so much more convenient to have what must be close to her entire ouvre in one spot!
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~elfindog/pcsworks.htm
Letter of the Beasts to Dina(Edith M. Theobald 1905 illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith)
Green Sheaf (Location of volume only)
- well almost - It's a page at King's College London which discusses an exhibition there. I guess they have possesion of at least one edition of Pixie's little magazine-. Rare Books Collection PR1145 G82. There's one small lo-rez illo for the article and no link to any pdf or other facsimile that I can find so far.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library ... press.html
I'm almost done. Before I post my last resource link (for now, anyway), I have to say that I've learned quite a bit about this lady, this 'Pixie', in the last few days. I never really paid much attention to the Rider-Waite/Smith Tarot until now. It has been the antique Mantegna and Minchiate decks which most attracted me. But Pamela Colman Smith was a true Bohemian, in the same world as Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Crane. A fin de siecle artist who drew the most famous Tarot deck in the world. I believe now that she must stand as an example of what many of the artists of the various tarot decks all through history were. She definitley lived the Boho lifestyle. Darling of literary and theatrical icons. A dabbler in the occult. Brief fame and then, for the last half of her life, obscurity and a death in poverty. A study of her life could probably illuminate the lives of many Tarot artists who came before her. A study of her art will certainly help answer questions and musings on the deck of Tarot cards she created. I hope all these links I've posted will serve the Tarot community, and the historians of it as valuable source material. In my search for these treasures over the last 4 days I have often used biographical and bibliographic material from the wonderful web pages devoted to her work-
http://pcs2051.tripod.com/index.htm (already listed in my first post here.)
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~elfindog/pcsworks.htm(already listed in this post)
http://home.comcast.net/~pamela-c-smith/bio.html
Her Wikipedia page and much else.
Now a little treat.
Bohemia In London (Arthur Ransom 1907)
- This book contains one of the very few accounts of Pamela Colman Smith that I've run across. Much of itis posted at the 'Biography Of Pamela Colman Smith') website directly above. I found a pdf of the book. The section on Pixie runs from page 56 of the book/ pg 84 of the pdf - pg 65 of the book/ pg 93 of the pdf. Ransom calls Pixie "Gypsy" instead. But the evidence is pretty good that he was describing Pamela Colman Smith. You can read this evidence at the Arthur Ransom page of the just mentioned website
http://pcs2051.tripod.com/ransome.htm
Appropriately for our pixie faced boho beauty and Tarot deck creator, it is part fact and part fiction. I enjoyed it immensely.
http://www.archive.org/details/bohemiai ... 00ransiala
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