Fred Wetzel received his B.S. in Biology from Kutztown University. His major area of specialization is Ornithology working mostly with birds of prey. He was Natural History Curator for the Lehigh County Cultural Center and Assistant Curator at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, Pa.
He has been teaching art privately around the country for the past 23 years and has run seminars in Plen Aire painting in Maine, Wyoming, Paris and Italy. He received his art instruction privately under Conrad Roland who was himself a student of Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
He has exhibited at the William Penn Memorial Museum in Harrisburg Pa., the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pa., the Reading
Museum in Reading, Pa. and the St. Augustine Art Association in St. Augustine, Fla. His paintings hang in the collections of the Everhart and Reading Museums and in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Mr Wetzel's paintings have been reproduced in numerous publications in the United States and Europe. He illustrated The View
From Hawk Mountain published by Scribners and The Mountain and the Migration published by Hawk Mountain.
He has been teaching art privately around the country for the past 23 years and has run seminars in Plen Aire painting in Maine, Wyoming, Paris and Italy. He received his art instruction privately under Conrad Roland who was himself a student of Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
He has exhibited at the William Penn Memorial Museum in Harrisburg Pa., the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pa., the Reading
Museum in Reading, Pa. and the St. Augustine Art Association in St. Augustine, Fla. His paintings hang in the collections of the Everhart and Reading Museums and in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Mr Wetzel's paintings have been reproduced in numerous publications in the United States and Europe. He illustrated The View
From Hawk Mountain published by Scribners and The Mountain and the Migration published by Hawk Mountain.
