Philip Letiecq

![]() River Otters21x24, Oil |
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![]() Changing Colors32x22, Oil |
![]() Bacon Hollow Resident15x9, Oil |
PHILIP D. LETIECQ had a keen appreciation of wildlife from an early age, becoming an avid fisherman and tier of lures while he was still in high school. Educated at SUNY Oswego and SUNY Cortland, he was a teacher in New York State for much of his professional life, but also became well known as a custom gun maker because of his love of hunting and wood. Moving to Wyoming in 1980, Letiecq spent much time hiking, camping and hunting in the Big Horns, the Wyoming prairies, the Rocky Mountains, and in Alaska.
1938 - 2012
It was this influence of nature that prompted Letiecq to take up painting, a
serious pursuit he carried out for the rest of his life. Upon retirement in 2000,
Letiecq and his family moved to his wife's family home in Sunderland. His art
career included exhibitions at the National Wildlife Exhibit in Cheyenne, Wyoming (where he won first place in the Birdlife category), the Bennington Center for the Arts, SVAC, the Bryan Gallery in Jeffersonville, Vermont, and the John Zaccheo Gallery in Manchester, Vermont.