Salon: Museum Art for TV

Every picture hand-picked and cut to fill the screen exactly. Eighteen movements, from the Renaissance to Ukiyo-e, from three of the world's great museums.

Salon turns your Apple TV into a picture frame.

Choose a painting and it stays there — edge to edge, filling the screen the way a picture fills a wall. No captions, no clutter, nothing between you and the work.

CHOSEN, NOT SCRAPED

Every picture in Salon has been looked at by a person before it reaches your wall. Museum collections are full of work that is technically free to use and hopeless on a television: portraits taller than they are wide, faint pencil studies, the blank back of a sketchbook page. None of that is here.

What is here has been checked for shape, for sharpness, and for whether it still looks like something from across a room — then cut to exactly 3840 x 2160, so your television neither crops it nor letterboxes it.

BROWSE BY MOVEMENT

Eighteen categories: Renaissance, Old Master Prints, Baroque, Dutch Golden Age, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Hudson River School, Barbizon School, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Ukiyo-e, Master Drawings, American Painting, Early Modern Painting — and Featured, drawn from all of them.

Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Seurat, Turner, Constable, Rubens, Canaletto, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Homer, Sargent, Whistler, Cézanne, Eakins, Bellows, Fragonard, Claude Lorrain.

FRAMED, OR NOT

Leave the picture edge to edge, or set it behind a bevel-cut mat — a passepartout in five board colours and three widths, with an even border on all four sides. A live preview beside the settings shows the real thing as you choose it.

A CLOCK, IF YOU WANT ONE

Off, time, or time and date. Any corner. Twelve or twenty-four hour.

KEEP WHAT YOU LIKE

Save pictures to Favourites and let the frame move through them on its own — every minute, five, fifteen, or hour, in order or shuffled. Saved pictures are kept on the device, so the frame carries on working if your connection drops.

WHERE THE ART COMES FROM

Every work is in the public domain, published for unrestricted use by the museum that holds it: the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING, NO SUBSCRIPTION

Salon asks for nothing. No sign-in, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. Buy it once and it is yours.

An internet connection is needed to browse and to add new pictures. Art after roughly 1930 is still under copyright almost everywhere, which is why the collection ends where it does.