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