Alvar Aalto

[Finnish Architect, 1898-1976]

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Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Alvar Aalto Museum and Foundation, Jyvaskyla, Finland

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, New York City
2 works online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

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!

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!

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

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Great Buildings Online

Articles:

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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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Alvar Aalto: Masterworks

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Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism

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Alvar Aalto Complete Work, Vol 3 (1971-1976)

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Alvar Aalto: Towards a Human Modernism

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Alvar Aalto: "A Gentler Structure for Life"

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