PORTRAIT OF DR. WALTER ÁLVAREZ
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC commissioned a portrait of Walter Alvarez in 2019. The curators requested a copper cutout portrait of a notable person, leaving the choice of the person up to Carmen Lomas Garza. She selected Dr. Walter Alvarez, a geologist, professor emeritus at U.C Berkeley, California who developed and researched his theory of the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs all over the world 66 million years ago.