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
Serendipity
Pont Neuf
Sky Trip
Tremor
Moon Catch
Irish Landscape
Nuage A La Neige
Captive Balloon
Sky Button
Cliff Hanger
Sturdust
Playground
Morning Mist
Aqueduct
Tight Rope
String And Scissors
High Tide Low Tide
Icy Slice
Fuji Under Siege
Love Letters
Quiet Zone
Christmas Tree
Mountain Lift
Ribbon Snail
Domino Books
Gold Rings
Book Circle
Chateau
Clarion
Deardorff
Floating Books
Letting Off Steam
Day Room
Open Book
Tugboat Afloat
Basted Waves
Art Forms
Bubble
Orange Shell
Shell City
Pyramid
Walnut
Dinner For Two
Airplane
Suspended Sentence
Balloon Moon
Close Call
Safety Pin Cloud
Ladder
Night Table
Bubble In Valley
The Visitor
Mont St Michel
Solo
Picnic
Klaxon
Nadines Bookcase
Coastal Road
Pink House
Bell Aloft
Cutting Clouds
Night Room
Big Horn
Sentries