Robert M. Place

Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist, whose works have been displayed in galleries and museums and on the covers and pages of numerous books and magazines. He is noted as the designer and author of over twenty Tarot and oracle decks, including the internationally acclaimed Alchemical Tarot, and two deck and book sets on which he collaborated with Rachel Pollack. His Facsimile of an historic Italian Tarot is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he lectures regularly on their collection of playing cards. He was the guest of honor at the 2007 opening of the Tarot Museum in Riola, Italy, He curated the 2010 Tarot exhibition at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and Booklist has said that his book, The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, may be the best book ever written on the subject.