Currin similarly works in oil on linen with a highly polished figurative style that engages with appropriation and references existing imagery, blending contemporary sensibility with traditional painting techniques much like Phillips does in this southwestern themed work.

Brown is a leading figure in appropriation based oil painting who directly references and repaints existing artworks, sharing Phillips's core strategy of reworking source imagery through meticulous oil technique to create layered contemporary commentary.

Yuskavage works in oil on linen with a contemporary figurative approach that draws on popular and vernacular visual culture as source material, paralleling the way Phillips engages with found imagery and appropriation in this southwestern themed canvas.