I'm a big fan of the Rijksmuseum, especially their Rijkstudio feature that makes it easy to download public-domain works and use them to create your own objects or collages or whatever.
A recent casual search for 20th century works with a particularly lovely shade of green showed me a beautiful landscape by Gerrit van Blaaderen.
I love the lightness of the distant trees, and the reflections in the canal beyond the buildings - the straight edges of the block of light between the reflection of the trees. The longer I looked, the more real each building became to me, the more distinct each tree.
I couldn't find much about the artist online - no English Wikipedia page, nothing using a .edu search or a .org search, surprisingly. The Rijksmuseum has 39 of his works, but only two have been digitized.
I keep being delighted by the many ways museums give us of exploring art, these days - and so grateful for the ability to save a copy to my own computer, to look at up close, to revisit whenever I'd like a small expanse of green and light in my day.
