en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Colman_Smith
tarotarts.com/pages/rider-waite-smith
It says Waite “commisioned” Smith to draw the cards so she, maybe, got some compensation but nothing about her getting anything from the sales.
Smith was one hell of a woman though.
Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers.[4]
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Pamela Colman Smith, a British artist. Who, I have just learned, was actually not a woman of color. Despite her spending a lot of time in Jamaica, writing books on Jamaican folklore, and even adopting the dress and mannerisms of a Jamaican…she was actually European. Kids these days would call that “problematic”.
However, she never married, and she lived with a female best friend, so I think the odds are very good that she was either a lesbian or asexual.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Thank you for jumping to the defence of a deceased person for a potential disparagement another dead person made based on an intrinsic attribute we cannot confirm.