Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Monday, July 6, 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
Pyramid
Cutting Clouds
Captive Balloon
Clarion
Shell City
Tight Rope
High Tide Low Tide
Chateau
Mountain Lift
Coastal Road
Dinner For Two
The Visitor
Gold Rings
Cliff Hanger
Icy Slice
Moon Catch
Close Call
Ladder
Picnic
Klaxon
Airplane
Sky Trip
Letting Off Steam
Domino Books
Christmas Tree
Nadines Bookcase
Mont St Michel
Aqueduct
Basted Waves
Pont Neuf
Day Room
Book Circle
Fuji Under Siege
Tugboat Afloat
Sky Button
Deardorff
Balloon Moon
String And Scissors
Love Letters
Bubble In Valley
Sturdust
Suspended Sentence
Art Forms
Big Horn
Ribbon Snail
Nuage A La Neige
Orange Shell
Quiet Zone
Solo
Playground
Night Room
Safety Pin Cloud
Floating Books
Night Table
Bubble
Morning Mist
Tremor
Bell Aloft
Irish Landscape
Serendipity
Open Book
Walnut
Sentries
Pink House