Nationality
French-American
Artist Dates
1921-2001
Title of Work
Birthday (Set of 50)
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Fanny Brennan was born and raised in 1921 in Paris, France. Brennan was educated in both Europe and the United States, enrolling in art school in France in 1938. After the World War II had begun, she moved to New York and worked at both Harper's Bazaar and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is best known for her surrealist paintings which combine domestic objects like needles, buttons, books and ribbons with panoramic landscapes. A major characteristic in her paintings are that they never exceed a few inches square, making postcards a perfect platform for her creations.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Description: Postcard depicts a painting in its center containing a cloud wrapped with a trailing red ribbon in a blue sky.
UND Art Collections owns 50 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Fanny Brennan, Birthday
Oil on gesso panel
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”