Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Friday, May 15, 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
Basted Waves
Letting Off Steam
Gold Rings
Cutting Clouds
Mountain Lift
Airplane
Captive Balloon
Klaxon
Icy Slice
The Visitor
Solo
Fuji Under Siege
Safety Pin Cloud
Suspended Sentence
Nadines Bookcase
Night Room
Deardorff
Sentries
Ribbon Snail
Floating Books
Bell Aloft
Sky Trip
Irish Landscape
Sturdust
High Tide Low Tide
Bubble
Moon Catch
Quiet Zone
String And Scissors
Sky Button
Close Call
Tugboat Afloat
Clarion
Ladder
Cliff Hanger
Shell City
Picnic
Orange Shell
Domino Books
Dinner For Two
Bubble In Valley
Pyramid
Aqueduct
Night Table
Playground
Balloon Moon
Chateau
Pont Neuf
Day Room
Book Circle
Walnut
Open Book
Tremor
Christmas Tree
Coastal Road
Serendipity
Tight Rope
Big Horn
Mont St Michel
Love Letters
Morning Mist
Nuage A La Neige
Pink House
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