Louis pioneered Color Field painting using poured acrylic and dye on unprimed canvas, creating luminous transparent layers of flowing color that directly parallel Gilliam's layered dye pigments and oil glazes in Dew. Both artists treated color as a physical and atmospheric presence rather than a descriptive tool.

Frankenthaler's soak stain technique produced deeply transparent, fluid color fields on canvas that share the same luminosity and lyrical abstraction visible in Dew. Her layering of paint to create atmospheric depth and contemplative mood closely mirrors the material and emotional qualities of this specific work.

Noland worked extensively with acrylic and dye on canvas within the Color Field tradition, exploring how transparent washes of pigment could build visual depth and chromatic intensity in ways that resemble Gilliam's layered approach in Dew. Both artists shared a deep interest in how material processes could generate expressive non representational color relationships.