Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Friday, June 12, 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
Floating Books
Book Circle
Tugboat Afloat
Klaxon
Moon Catch
Open Book
Nuage A La Neige
Sky Button
Quiet Zone
Day Room
The Visitor
Airplane
Ladder
Tremor
Christmas Tree
Mont St Michel
Picnic
Close Call
Shell City
Night Room
Clarion
Letting Off Steam
Night Table
Morning Mist
Nadines Bookcase
Bell Aloft
High Tide Low Tide
Icy Slice
Captive Balloon
Basted Waves
Big Horn
Sentries
Safety Pin Cloud
String And Scissors
Sturdust
Mountain Lift
Deardorff
Aqueduct
Tight Rope
Fuji Under Siege
Domino Books
Balloon Moon
Chateau
Bubble In Valley
Ribbon Snail
Playground
Bubble
Gold Rings
Orange Shell
Cutting Clouds
Pont Neuf
Love Letters
Coastal Road
Sky Trip
Irish Landscape
Pink House
Art Forms
Pyramid
Dinner For Two
Walnut
Cliff Hanger
Serendipity
Solo
Suspended Sentence