No. 001 · A Daily Curation for macOS catalogue raisonné

Every morning,
a new masterpiece
& a quiet desktop.

EaselWall lives in your menu bar and quietly mats a different public-domain painting onto your wallpaper each day — displayed, as it should be, with margins.

Get on the Mac App Store $2.99

^† $2.99 once includes automatic App Store updates and supports ongoing curation · no account, subscription, ads, or tracking.

The Bedroom Vincent van Gogh · 1889

OIL / CANVAS
73.6 × 92.3 CM
TODAY'S ENTRY

Arrival of the Normandy TrainCLAUDE MONET · 1877 A Sunday on La Grande JatteGEORGES SEURAT · 1884 IrisesVAN GOGH · 1890 Water LiliesMONET · 1906 The BedroomVAN GOGH · 1889 Cliff Walk at PourvilleMONET · 1882 Arrival of the Normandy TrainCLAUDE MONET · 1877 A Sunday on La Grande JatteGEORGES SEURAT · 1884 IrisesVAN GOGH · 1890 Water LiliesMONET · 1906 The BedroomVAN GOGH · 1889 Cliff Walk at PourvilleMONET · 1882

Designed in the spirit of a gallery wall.

Three Attentions

Museum mats

With Museum Mat enabled, each painting is presented on a soft cream mat with a subtle border and shadow — no stretched pixels, no awkward cropping, no screen clutter.

Orientation aware

Landscape displays, vertical monitors, studio ultrawides — EaselWall recomposes the mat to keep each painting looking considered, not crammed.

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Set & forget

Installs once, lives in your menu bar, and refreshes on schedule. No accounts, no notifications, no tracking. Pick another hour in Settings whenever you like.

An evolving collection

Morning after morning,
fifty-three curated paintings.

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II.

Three steps, then forever.

The Installation

Install

Drag the app into Applications, or pour one line of Homebrew into your terminal. EaselWall slips quietly into the menu bar.

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Curate

At a moment of your choosing, a painting is drawn from the bundled open-access collection and matted to your display. Add more public-domain Van Gogh works from the Rijksmuseum Collection without an API key.

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Enjoy

Close the lid, open it tomorrow, find a different Monet. Or a Degas. Or a Cassatt. With Museum Mat enabled, each work stays properly credited, matted, and at its natural proportions.

Put a little museum on your Mac.

Fifty-three impressionist and post-impressionist works, thirty available offline, composed for every display. Pay once and let tomorrow choose the next one.

Get EaselWall on the Mac App Store $2.99

Prefer the source-available build? Download it free or use Homebrew.

The desktop is the most-looked-at painting in the world. It may as well be a good one.

The Curator's Note

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Sourced from open collections.

Provenance

CC0

№ 01

The Art Institute
of Chicago

Its open-access collection includes works by Caillebotte, Seurat, and Monet, shared for anyone to explore and reuse.

CC0

№ 02

The Metropolitan
Museum of Art

The Met's public-domain collection spans 5,000 years of human creativity — drawn on selectively for impressionist and post-impressionist work.

PDM / CC0

№ 03 · Optional

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam

Add more Van Gogh works from the Rijksmuseum Collection directly in Settings. No API key is required, and EaselWall accepts only records marked CC0 or Public Domain Mark.

EaselWall uses only artwork records that the source institution marks CC0 or Public Domain Mark. Rights status can vary by jurisdiction; consult the linked source record for details. EaselWall is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, any museum named above. EaselWall was developed using the Rijksmuseum API.

Read the source on GitHub

Every morning, a new masterpiece & a quiet desktop.