Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Sunday, June 14, 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
Mountain Lift
String And Scissors
Nuage A La Neige
Solo
Pink House
Letting Off Steam
Pont Neuf
Tugboat Afloat
Balloon Moon
Sky Trip
Aqueduct
Irish Landscape
High Tide Low Tide
Night Room
Orange Shell
Night Table
Pyramid
Picnic
Nadines Bookcase
Close Call
Cutting Clouds
Airplane
Deardorff
Book Circle
Dinner For Two
Gold Rings
Floating Books
Suspended Sentence
Christmas Tree
Tight Rope
Love Letters
Chateau
Ribbon Snail
Safety Pin Cloud
Icy Slice
Clarion
Serendipity
Walnut
Big Horn
Morning Mist
Open Book
Quiet Zone
Bubble
Ladder
Bubble In Valley
Fuji Under Siege
Domino Books
Basted Waves
Shell City
Sturdust
Sentries
Coastal Road
Day Room
Sky Button
Mont St Michel
Klaxon
Art Forms
Playground
Moon Catch
Bell Aloft
The Visitor
Cliff Hanger
Captive Balloon
Tremor