Alvar Aalto art links 

Alvar Aalto: Finlandia Opera House, Helsinki
Photographed by Dmitry Nikolaev

Alvar Aalto Museum and Foundation, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Design Museum, London, UK

Alvar Aalto at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
"39" Chaise Longue, 1936-37

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
2 works online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
6 works by Alvar Aalto online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (in Spanish)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 chairs by Alvar Aalto online

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)   NEW!  

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Baker House, MIT

PBase Photo Sharing
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arcspace

Great Buildings Online

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alvar Aalto  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Apollo Magazine
Article: "A is for Aalto"

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

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