Dana Schutz works in oil and acrylic on canvas with a similarly expressive and layered approach, building complex surfaces through mixed paint applications. Her contemporary paintings share Hughes' playful yet emotionally charged visual language and experimental attitude toward materials.

Cecily Brown creates thickly worked oil and mixed media paintings on canvas that share the same richly layered surface quality seen in So Romantical. Her work similarly blends romantic and gestural sensibilities with a contemporary painterly approach.

Katherine Bernhardt combines acrylic and mixed media on canvas with bold expressive brushwork that closely parallels Hughes' layered material approach. Her contemporary canvases share the same energetic surface building and use of metallic and unconventional paint elements.