Luis Alvarez Roure

Luis Alvarez Roure was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. As a child, he taught himself to draw. He declined taking formal art lessons. He also developed a great interest in music and his father enrolled him in piano lessons. Eventually, he moved to New York City to study piano performance under Germán Diez at City University of New York, where he completed a Master of Arts in Music. He then enrolled at the Art Students League of New York where he studied with Nelson Shanks. According to Roure, seeing his teacher paint was a turning point. Roure is a resident of Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. ==Career==

Alvarez Roure's work has been collected by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Steinway Hall in New York City, and the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C. In 2019 he was a finalist of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, where his painting Hidden Wounds was one of 46 works exhibited at The Outwin: American Portraiture Today at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In 2022 Alvarez Roure won the Draper Grand Prize at the 24th Portrait Society of America's International Portrait Competition. In May 2024, Princeton University unveiled Alvarez Roure's portrait of legendary actor and director José Ferrer, a 1933 graduate. ==Works==

File:Philip Glass.jpg|Philip Glass. 2016. Oil on board. Collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. File:"Memento" Portrait of composer Octavio Vazquez.jpg|"Memento" Portrait of composer Octavio Vazquez. Oil on linen. 36 x 24 inches. File:Portrait of Joshua Bell.jpg|Portrait of violinist Joshua Bell. Oil on linen. File:Cándido Camero by Luis Alvarez Roure.jpg|Portrait of Cándido Camero. ==References==