Fanny Brennan Art Gallery
Gallery updated on Monday, June 29, 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
Deardorff
Clarion
Safety Pin Cloud
Captive Balloon
Dinner For Two
Orange Shell
Quiet Zone
Aqueduct
Icy Slice
Picnic
Mountain Lift
Bell Aloft
Letting Off Steam
Love Letters
Art Forms
Cutting Clouds
High Tide Low Tide
Open Book
Sky Trip
Moon Catch
Floating Books
Nadines Bookcase
Tremor
Nuage A La Neige
Pink House
Ladder
Day Room
Klaxon
Pyramid
Night Table
Tight Rope
Balloon Moon
Playground
Bubble
Airplane
Irish Landscape
Morning Mist
Fuji Under Siege
Ribbon Snail
Sky Button
Walnut
Mont St Michel
Book Circle
String And Scissors
Domino Books
Solo
Tugboat Afloat
Gold Rings
Big Horn
The Visitor
Night Room
Shell City
Christmas Tree
Serendipity
Close Call
Cliff Hanger
Sturdust
Bubble In Valley
Basted Waves
Suspended Sentence
Coastal Road
Sentries
Chateau
Pont Neuf