ANNE REAS: Original pastel renderings of Stories of Innocence and Experience

Rotunda Gallery

ANNE REAS

Original pastel renderings of Stories of Innocence and Experience

January 11–March 7, 2020

Anne Reas illustrated the child figures that interacted with the tableaux in Stories of Innocence and Experience. Working off Christine Oatman’s distinct memories of ‘50s era clothing, she was aiming for a rendering style somewhere between Norman Rockwell and the illustrations of the “Dick and Jane” books, the predominant readers in public schools from the 1940s through the early 1960s. As an editorial and children’s book illustrator, Ms Reas’ primary medium was dry chalk pastel. She received a BFA in illustration at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and has done work for publications at Random House, TIME for Kids, Cricket Media, and Condé Nast, among others.