Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards 1940s art What a weirdo

What a weirdo

Watercolor on watercolor type card

but I think more specifically it's about the singular individuality of portraits and simultaneous sense of connection to broader humanity they offer

typically monochromatic and most often depicting Hudson River landscapes

and the interior enamel is in near perfect condition

Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards 1940s art What a weirdoI have no idea if the person who made these really fun tarot cards paintings followed through with making a complete the deck (I would guess not, as the major arcana, of which there are 21 of 22 here just missing The Sun are the most exciting, and what a lot of effort they alone took!) These are closely based on the famous Rider Waite tarot deck, created by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, though the hand and sensibility of their maker is very much