收藏——当代罗斯科
Every Rothko currently in the matching system — 89 paintings, each hand-tagged with a colour register, brightness, temperature and mood so the engine can match it to a moment. Below: the shape of what we have, and how the set can grow.
Untitled 1969 2
Untitled Gray and Mauve
Untitled Red and Orange on Salmon
Black Red and Black
Untitled 1968 1
Untitled 1968 2
Rothko Chapel painting
Untitled Blue Divided By Blue
How the collection can grow
Images · near the ceiling
The current 89 images come from WikiArt and Wikimedia Commons — the two sources that actually host usable, hotlink-safe reproductions. WikiArt has a handful more works that were probed but not yet curated, so there's modest room (≈40 candidates) before this well runs dry.
Metadata · huge upside
The National Gallery received the Rothko Foundation gift in 1986 and documents roughly 1,130 works in its open (CC0) data and online catalogue raisonné. The images are capped at 900px fair-use previews, but the metadata — titles, years, mediums, dimensions — could deepen every record we have.
Tagging · do this first
The coverage bars above show the set leans dark and warm. The fastest quality win isn't more paintings — it's better balance: more luminous, cool, and bright-day works so sunny mornings and clear skies get a true match instead of the nearest dark canvas.
A note on why images are capped: Rothko died in 1970, so his paintings remain under copyright (managed by the artist's estate / Artists Rights Society) until roughly 2040. Museums' "open access" programmes apply only to their public-domain holdings — never to Rothko. So the realistic path to a bigger, richer collection runs through metadata and curation, not high-resolution downloads.