Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Tuesday, July 28, 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
Irish Landscape
Nadines Bookcase
Klaxon
Night Table
Day Room
Safety Pin Cloud
Fuji Under Siege
High Tide Low Tide
Sturdust
Tight Rope
Icy Slice
Serendipity
Playground
Balloon Moon
Solo
Art Forms
Dinner For Two
Quiet Zone
Chateau
Tugboat Afloat
Walnut
Aqueduct
Morning Mist
Ladder
Clarion
Coastal Road
Picnic
Sky Button
Domino Books
Bubble In Valley
Basted Waves
Close Call
Love Letters
Pink House
Pont Neuf
Pyramid
Moon Catch
Bell Aloft
String And Scissors
Bubble
Letting Off Steam
Gold Rings
Airplane
Night Room
The Visitor
Deardorff
Floating Books
Christmas Tree
Open Book
Nuage A La Neige
Orange Shell
Mont St Michel
Mountain Lift
Tremor
Book Circle
Suspended Sentence
Sky Trip
Big Horn
Cliff Hanger
Captive Balloon
Ribbon Snail
Sentries
Shell City
Cutting Clouds
