Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Anna Dibble & Dan Gottsegen

Dan Gottsegen was a preteen when he first found himself alone in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had intended to do research for a school project at the museum library, but he was told he was too young to be unaccompanied in the library. So he wandered out into the museum. “I discovered Baroque landscape painting,” he writes on his website. “My world was changed.” These days, the Vermont artist paints his own fractured landscapes, contrasting multiple points of view in a single scene. Gottsegen’s work is exhibited with the witty animal paintings of Anna Dibble in the newly renovated upstairs gallery space at Stowe’s West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, February 2 through 24. Pictured: “Winter Walk” by Gottsegen.