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American, born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, 1919.  Lived in New York City from 1961 until his death in 2009.

Introduced to Joaquín Torres-García in 1940, Alpuy joined his atelier and in 1943, began teaching at the TTG under Torres-García’s direction.  In 1944, Alpuy painted two Constructivist Murals for the Saint Bois Hospital, one now at the College of Architecture.  In 1949, he executed several mural commissions in mosaic for the architects Leborgne and De Leone and for Torres-García’s home.  In 1950s, interspersed by trips to Europe, the Middle East and Chile, and two years in Bogotá and Caracas, Alpuy continued to teach at the El Taller and work professionally.  He executed a series of large mural paintings for the architect Payssé Reyes, the Larrañaga Lyceum and for the YMCA headquarters in Montevideo. 

In 1961, Alpuy immigrated to New York City, where he died in 2009. He received a 1961 Fellowship from The New School for Social Research.  Alpuy was awarded a mural commission for the new Uruguayan Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1980, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983), the New York Council for the Arts (1986), and the Gottlieb Foundation (1990).  Alpuy has had numerous one-person exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows for nearly sixty years.  In 1999, the Municipal government in Montevideo honored Alpuy with a retrospective exhibition that then traveled to Buenos Aires.  Alpuy’s work is in major public and private collections internationally.

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