The catalogs on that page were the best collections of pictures I could find. Unfortunately, there are few freely-redistributable photographs (and no freely-redistributable design drawings) of any modern architect's work--rights reside in the work itself, which means one can make only limited use of even one's own pictures and drawings. What I could find on the web is linked on that page. The NY-MOMA Between Humanism and Materialism exhibit site has a fairly good chronology of his career with pictures--click on "Timeline" and follow it through. The "Buildings" links on that page also have photographs--I've changed the Mt. Angel Abbey Library page to link directly to a photographs page.
You are right; Aalto was extremely influential. Aalto and the two Saarinens (Eliel and Eero, father and son) were the definitive Scandinavian modernists; their work has influence the Scandinavian modern design we see day-to-day. It's interesting you should say that the chairs look like the work of a man who would not want to put it into words; even in his own day Aalto's work was criticized as "irrational"--part of what made the canonical modernist designers Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier so influential is that they were able to write persuasive manifestoes in support of their formalist work. But Mies' formalism made his post-Bauhaus work very uncomfortable and Le Corbusier's later, more fluid work was also criticized as irrational. Overall I much prefer Aalto to the formalist modernism.
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You are right; Aalto was extremely influential. Aalto and the two Saarinens (Eliel and Eero, father and son) were the definitive Scandinavian modernists; their work has influence the Scandinavian modern design we see day-to-day. It's interesting you should say that the chairs look like the work of a man who would not want to put it into words; even in his own day Aalto's work was criticized as "irrational"--part of what made the canonical modernist designers Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier so influential is that they were able to write persuasive manifestoes in support of their formalist work. But Mies' formalism made his post-Bauhaus work very uncomfortable and Le Corbusier's later, more fluid work was also criticized as irrational. Overall I much prefer Aalto to the formalist modernism.