We know that master portrait artist Fran Lew creates life whenever she puts charcoal to paper and it’s no different in her latest work, “Star Trek Stars”. This monumental portrait of James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), measures an impressive 25″ x 19″ and is one of the most dramatic portraits to come out of her atelier.

With its dense application of charcoal in the furthest reaches of deep space to the brilliant burst of light from the Starship Enterprise that helps define the the two characters, Lew has captured the mystery and drama of the “Star Trek” phenomenon.

With Kirk focused directly on the viewer and Spock looking amused at what we can only imagine are the foibles and unreasonableness of the human race, Lew has found the chemistry that made this television duo so potent and captivating for generations of fans.

“Star Trek Stars” is now available for acquisition at your Chuck Jones Gallery. Framed beautifully with the finest archival materials, “Star Trek Stars” is ready to be enjoyed for generations of art connoisseurs.

Did you know that Fran Lew is museum-collected? Besides work at the Cornell Museum, one of her first works was purchased for the permanent collection of the Sherwin Miller Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“Lead Us in Peace” was painted by Lew in the early 1980s and acquired that same year by the museum. It is an impressive oil painting measuring 34″ x 50″ and depicts the founding prime ministers of Israel, David Ben Gurion, Golda Meir, and Moshe Dayan (left to right).

Her brilliance is capturing the essence of her subjects without forfeiting the integrity of the realism genre. Subtle, concise, and heartfelt, her application of paint (in this instance), allows the viewer to appreciate the innate compassion of the subjects while reinforcing their strength. A hallmark of the artist in not only her earliest work, but of her most recent.