E EaselWall
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.

Download for macOS brew install ntindle/easelwall/easelwall

† Free via Homebrew & direct download. $3 on the Mac App Store. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

The Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh
The Bedroom Vincent van Gogh · 1889
OIL / CANVAS
73.6 × 92.3 CM
TODAY'S ENTRY
I.

Designed in the spirit of a gallery wall.

Three Attentions
i

Museum mats

Each painting is presented on a soft cream mat with a subtle border and a proper wall label — no stretched pixels, no awkward cropping, no screen clutter.

ii

Orientation aware

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

iii

Set & forget

Installs once, lives in your menu bar, refreshes at dawn. No accounts, no notifications, no tracking. A single checkbox if you'd rather pick the hour.

Landscape monitor with painting on mat
Portrait monitor with painting on mat
Landscape monitor with painting on mat
II.

Three steps, then forever.

The Installation
i.

Install

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

ii.

Curate

At a moment of your choosing, a painting is drawn from three open-access museum collections and matted to your display.

iii.

Enjoy

Close the lid, open it tomorrow, find a different Monet. Or a Degas. Or a Cassatt. All properly labelled, credited, and framed.

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

Sourced from open collections.

Provenance
CC0
№ 01

The Art Institute
of Chicago

Over 52,000 works made freely available through the museum's open-access initiative, including Caillebotte, Seurat, and Monet.

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.

CC0
№ 03

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam

The Dutch Golden Age and beyond, offered at remarkably high resolution. Vermeer, Rembrandt, and van Gogh return here, unclipped, on your screen.

All paintings are drawn from public-domain (CC0) museum collections. EaselWall is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, any museum named above. All artwork images are in the public domain and may be used for any purpose.

Read the source on GitHub