The living room features a wooden owl by Louise Kruger, an artist-friend whose work Norma and John Jr. showed in their gallery and, over the sideboard, Water #4, painted by Lee Krasner in 1969. Above the fireplace is John Marin’s 1948 oil Sea with Boat in Greys, Greens, and Reds. Because he could not get good frames during World War II, he bought stock frames, which he carved and painted gold.