Fanny Brennan

Fanny Myers Brennan (1921–2001) was a French-American surrealist painter.[1][2] She was born in Paris, and educated in the United States and Europe, enrolling in art school in France in 1938.[1] When war began, she went to New York.[1] In 1941 the Wakefield Bookshop gallery run by Betty Parsons included her in two shows.[1] She also worked for Harpers Bazaar[3] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] In 1944, the Office of War Information hired her to work in Europe.[1] For almost twenty years after the births of her children she ceased painting, not beginning again until 1970.[1] Starting in 1973, she had three solo exhibitions with Betty Parsons, and then some with Coe Kerr Gallery.[1] A book of her work, titled Skyshades: Sixty Small paintings, was published in 1990 with an introduction by Calvin Tomkins.[1][4]

Fanny Brennan
Born1921 (1921)
Paris, France
Died2001 (aged 79–80)
New York City
NationalityFrench-American
Known forPainting
MovementSurrealism

Her paintings were typically in miniature format[5] and frequently combined domestic objects such as buttons with landscapes. The art critic Celia McGee said of her paintings that "Brennan's magic‐realist canvases—in which landscapes are literally put in a nutshell, a feather duster is taken to Mount Fuji, a spool of ribbon unwinds into a road, and scale and gravity are turned on their heads—are never larger than six square inches."[6]

Her portrait was drawn by Alberto Giacometti.[3] She died in July 22, 2001 in New York City.[7]

References
  1. Cotter, Holland (2001-07-31). "Fanny Brennan, Surrealist, 80; Lived in Paris". The New York Times.
  2. "New York Magazine". 1990-10-15.
  3. "Deaths". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  4. "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". 1992.
  5. "Newsweek". 1990.
  6. Miller, Linda Patterson (2010). "Fanny and Honoria Remember: September 1994". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. 8: 3–22. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6333.2010.01033.x.
  7. "Fanny Brennan; French-Born Surrealist Painter". 2001-08-02.

Further reading
  • Skyshades: Sixty Small Paintings by Fanny Brennan, 1990, Clarkson Potter ISBN 0517576716
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