Pamela Colman Smith

Artist, theatre designer, folklorist, Golden Dawn initiate in her own right, and a synaesthete who painted what she heard in music. Born in London to American parents and raised partly in Jamaica.

She drew the most reproduced esoteric images on earth — and the innovation that made the deck work, illustrating the minor arcana as full scenes rather than pips, was hers. She was paid a flat fee and very largely forgotten. This app calls the deck Rider-Waite-Smith.