Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Wednesday, June 17, 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
Ladder
Pyramid
Orange Shell
Serendipity
Aqueduct
Morning Mist
Book Circle
Ribbon Snail
Day Room
Pont Neuf
Playground
Picnic
Sky Button
Love Letters
Domino Books
Safety Pin Cloud
Tight Rope
Bell Aloft
The Visitor
Deardorff
Nuage A La Neige
Clarion
Nadines Bookcase
Art Forms
Walnut
Christmas Tree
Fuji Under Siege
Cutting Clouds
Balloon Moon
Pink House
Letting Off Steam
Open Book
Moon Catch
Bubble
Irish Landscape
Klaxon
Close Call
Airplane
Suspended Sentence
Tremor
Sturdust
String And Scissors
Night Room
Coastal Road
Basted Waves
Icy Slice
Sentries
Solo
Shell City
Gold Rings
Quiet Zone
Sky Trip
High Tide Low Tide
Chateau
Cliff Hanger
Floating Books
Mountain Lift
Big Horn
Night Table
Mont St Michel
Captive Balloon
Tugboat Afloat
Dinner For Two
Bubble In Valley