Born in Manhattan, Steve Alpert worked as an award-winning TV producer/director for thirty years. In 1999, he changed focus and became a fine art oil painter. He became known for his landscapes but in 2003 began to make paintings honoring men and women who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Mr. Alpert’s paintings have been exhibited in fine art galleries all over the U.S.; Manhattan, Red Bank NJ, Key West and North Key Largo FL, Rockland ME, Dallas, Houston and Johnson City TX, Sausalito CA, Honolulu and Maui, Rye NY, Litchfield and Greenwich CT, Quogue, and Mamaroneck, NY.
In 2015, Alpert’s triptych, “Portrait of a Woman,” depicting a woman soldier saluting the flag from three different angles in the same moment was requested by the staff of the Vice-President of the United States (Biden) where it was on display in the Vice-President’s home at the Naval Observatory during the 2015 holiday season. In 2016 Alpert donated the triptych to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Alpert’s series of large paintings titled, “Full Honors,” documenting the progression of a full honors funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery is on permanent display at the Pentagon. Alpert’s work is a part of the permanent collection of a number of national institutions; The National Museum of the United States Marine Corps at Quantico VA, the Naval War College at Newport RI, The Institute of World Politics Graduate School in Washington D.C., the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Dover DE, The Union Club in New York City.
His series of (12) large portraits of women veterans for a series called, “Proudly She Served,” have been on display at military museums across the US. The mission is to shine a light on celebrity women veterans (Senator Tammy Duckworth) and everyday heroes who have served this nation with courage and commitment.
Alpert leads a painting workshop for veterans as a part of the Fordham University Veterans Initiative.
In November 2024, Mr. Alpert donated a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Mayor of Thionville, France as part of their 80th anniversary of liberation from the Nazis. Alpert gave remarks in French at the unveiling ceremony at Thionville City Hall. In November 1944, Thionville was the last French city to be liberated by the US Army.
His charitable donations of prints of his paintings has raised nearly a half million dollars to various Veteran Service Organizations including Children of Fallen Patriots and Fisher House. Mr. Alpert was nominated for the Distinguished Citizen Award by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
In 2026, he received the Metropolitan Award from the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in recognition of his artistic achievement and his Japan-inspired collection.
