My Work

Jerry with “Lunatic I,” a mass spectrometer he designed and built to determine the ages of the first samples collected on the moon.

This is a commissioned portrait of Jerry, a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Cal Tech and long-time friend and colleague. I wanted to emulate the 18th century tradition of portraiture, in which the painting includes iconic symbols of the subject’s achievement. One such symbol is an Apollo lunar sample, troctolite 76535, collected by the Apollo 17 mission.