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     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.


 
 


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