Fanny Brennan | |
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Born | 1921 Paris, France |
Died | 2001 (aged 79–80) New York City |
Nationality | French-American |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Surrealism |
Fanny Myers Brennan (1921–July 22, 2001) was a French-American surrealist artist and painter. [1] [2]
Brennan was born in Paris, educated in the United States and Europe and enrolled in an art school in France in 1938. [1] When World War II began, Brennan 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 Harper's Bazaar and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [3] [1] In 1944, the Office of War Information hired her to work in Europe. [1] For almost twenty years after the birth of her children Brennan ceased painting, not beginning again until 1970. [1] Starting in 1973, she had three solo exhibitions with 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]
Brennan's paintings are typically in miniature format and frequently combine domestic objects such as buttons with landscapes. [5] 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 on July 22, 2001, in New York City. [7]
Fanny Brennan | |
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Born | 1921 Paris, France |
Died | 2001 (aged 79–80) New York City |
Nationality | French-American |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Surrealism |
Fanny Myers Brennan (1921–July 22, 2001) was a French-American surrealist artist and painter. [1] [2]
Brennan was born in Paris, educated in the United States and Europe and enrolled in an art school in France in 1938. [1] When World War II began, Brennan 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 Harper's Bazaar and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [3] [1] In 1944, the Office of War Information hired her to work in Europe. [1] For almost twenty years after the birth of her children Brennan ceased painting, not beginning again until 1970. [1] Starting in 1973, she had three solo exhibitions with 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]
Brennan's paintings are typically in miniature format and frequently combine domestic objects such as buttons with landscapes. [5] 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 on July 22, 2001, in New York City. [7]