Maciunas pioneered artist boxes and event scores that functioned as portable conceptual documents, directly paralleling Duchamps green box format of housing fragmented notes and instructions as artworks in themselves. Both artists challenged conventional art objects by treating documentation and packaging as the primary creative medium.

Cornell constructed enigmatic boxed assemblages filled with collected objects, photographs, and ephemera that invite contemplative interpretation, mirroring the mysterious and document rich quality of the green box. His work similarly blurs the boundary between archive, object, and poetic artistic statement.

Roth created numerous artist books, boxes, and mixed media multiples that combined text, image, and material fragments into conceptual portable works, sharing the green boxes identity as both manual and artwork. His practice similarly questioned what constitutes an art object by embedding meaning within unconventional documentary formats.