But Rothko's aquatic colors are reflected in the painterly washes of a lovely 1917 JohnMarin seascape, unrelated to the Rothko exhibition, just outside the entrance to the show.
Oscar Bluemner, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, JohnMarin, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Sheeler and John Sloan were all in the Armory Show, and their contributions are now brought back together in Montclair.
He was one of the earliest patrons of the American modernists JohnMarin and Arthur Dove, and he bought the late work of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) in depth after World War II, a period when it was dismissed as emptily decorative.