But Rothko's aquatic colors are reflected in the painterly washes of a lovely 1917 John Marin seascape, unrelated to the Rothko exhibition, just outside the entrance to the show.

WSJ: Becoming Mark Rothko | The Decisive Decade | Columbus Museum of Art

Oscar Bluemner, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Sheeler and John Sloan were all in the Armory Show, and their contributions are now brought back together in Montclair.

WSJ: The Forgotten Americans | The New Spirit: American Art in the Amory Show, 1913 | Montclair Art Museum | By James Panero

He was one of the earliest patrons of the American modernists John Marin 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.

WSJ: A Collaboration of Bees and Man: The Phillips Collection at the Laib Wax Room