Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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Fanny Brennan's innovative approach to painting is immediately clear in the small size of her work, which never exceeds a few inches square. These tiny pictures are filled with humor and, in meticulous detail, present playful images of a mythical world that exists only in her imagination.
As an American student in Paris, Fanny was an independent soul. "At the Atelier Art et Jeunesse," she says, they were always trying to get me to fill the entire page of drawing paper. I only wanted to make very, very small pictures." Defying the fashion of the day, she refused to wear a hat and probably spent too much time at the Cafe de Flore, where she taught Picasso to play Chinese Checkers and rubbed peanut shells into Giacometti's hair. She was asked to leave her all-girl boarding house after calling the ornery concierge a "cow."
Since then, Fanny has painted more than 300 images on small gessoed composition boards—each one usually taking one month to complete. A charter member of "Who's Who in American Art" her originals have been exhibited in galleries across the USA. She has also received awards from Time Inc., The Art Directors Club and the Museum of Modern Art. Each of these lithographs is made in the traditional manner with all color plates created by hand.
As an American student in Paris, Fanny was an independent soul. "At the Atelier Art et Jeunesse," she says, they were always trying to get me to fill the entire page of drawing paper. I only wanted to make very, very small pictures." Defying the fashion of the day, she refused to wear a hat and probably spent too much time at the Cafe de Flore, where she taught Picasso to play Chinese Checkers and rubbed peanut shells into Giacometti's hair. She was asked to leave her all-girl boarding house after calling the ornery concierge a "cow."
Since then, Fanny has painted more than 300 images on small gessoed composition boards—each one usually taking one month to complete. A charter member of "Who's Who in American Art" her originals have been exhibited in galleries across the USA. She has also received awards from Time Inc., The Art Directors Club and the Museum of Modern Art. Each of these lithographs is made in the traditional manner with all color plates created by hand.
Fanny Brennan Current Portfolio
Sky Button
Ribbon Snail
High Tide Low Tide
Balloon Moon
String And Scissors
Basted Waves
Aqueduct
Christmas Tree
Picnic
Captive Balloon
Mountain Lift
Sky Trip
Close Call
Fuji Under Siege
Big Horn
Irish Landscape
Coastal Road
Night Room
Letting Off Steam
Pink House
Sturdust
Bubble In Valley
Mont St Michel
Suspended Sentence
Chateau
Bell Aloft
Klaxon
Moon Catch
Love Letters
Sentries
Orange Shell
Airplane
Book Circle
Tremor
Quiet Zone
Night Table
Art Forms
Cliff Hanger
Bubble
Tugboat Afloat
Domino Books
Icy Slice
Shell City
Pyramid
Tight Rope
The Visitor
Morning Mist
Floating Books
Playground
Nadines Bookcase
Nuage A La Neige
Deardorff
Cutting Clouds
Gold Rings
Clarion
Pont Neuf
Day Room
Open Book
Dinner For Two
Safety Pin Cloud
Ladder
Walnut
Solo
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