I almost didn't finish the last post! After I wrote the line
I had to open Text Editor (I'm on OS X) to find one of the links I needed to list. Text edit hung instead. So I forced quit. I knew I was in for trouble so I pressed the 'submit' button and posted what I had written unfinished, so I wouldn't loose all that. Quit the web browser. Then tried to delete the preference file for Text Editor. Trash hung when I tried to empty it ! So then Finder hung. I force quit Finder. Then I tried to restart the computer. No dice. I had to do a 'forced ungraceful shutdown" (fortunately not while I was writing anything to disk). After reboot I had to run 'repair disk permissions'. This all took about an hour. Then I returned to forum to finish with my ending notes and links. -over the last 4 days I have often used biographical and bibliographic material from the wonderful web pages devoted to her work-
Pamela Coleman Smith isn't the only one who has suffered for her art
Anway - As I finished the post I had to Google for something. I found the most wonderful link of all ! A thread at Aeclectic Tarot called 'The Green Sheaf' started by "roppo". It turns out that 'roppo' is the guy behind The Occult Art Gallery' Website which I've linked to above. And all those wonderful jpg's are his ! Apparently, he has been doing what I have been doing for the last 5 days. But he's been doing it for years, and doing it in the real world. He is finding and buying hard copies of all these books and magazines from around the world and having them shipped to him in Japan !!! He has then made digital files of the art and posted them on his 2 websites (and at Aeclectic Tarot). If you start at the beginning of his thread and read every word and explore every link, you will find what has to be the biggest treasure trove of Pixie paintings on the internet. Almost everything she's ever done. I have just cobbled together a little shrine. This man has built a true monument -
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.ph ... ge=1&pp=10