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Deirdre by Pamela Colman Smith


Type: Gallery Image | Not Vetted


A framed and coloured image showing Deirdre and Naisi Embracing on threshold as Birds of Doom fly above them

A.E. (George Russell) published "Deirdre: A Drama in Three Acts" as a supplement to Pamela Colman Smith's magazine The Green Sheaf, no. 7 (1903).  Smith illustrated Act II. The image shows Deirdre and Naisi in exile in Scotland. Deirdre receives a message of their coming doom in a vision of the Birds of Angus just as Fergus arrives to escort them back to Ireland (AE, Green Sheaf no. 7l, 1903, Supplemnt, p., 7). Smith's style is reminiscent of both the Pre-Raphaelites and Japanese prints in her use of the hard bounding line and solid masses of colour. She developed a method of hand-colouring for all her printed artwork, which she used in both books and magazines, and which she taught at her school in London.  Smith also used this style in her design of the Arthur Waite Tarot Cards. 

Date


1903

Artist


Pamela Colman Smith


Copyright
©1903

Vetted?
No
Submitted by Lorraine Kooistra on Tue, 05/05/2020 - 14:38

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