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

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
2 works online

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

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (in Spanish)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)  

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

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

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Great Buildings Online

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alvar Aalto  
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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"

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