Kline shared Tobey's commitment to gestural calligraphic mark making and abstract expression through bold brushwork, creating compositions where the physical act of writing becomes a meditative and spiritual gesture on the picture plane.

Bissier worked with delicate ink and gouache marks on paper in a deeply contemplative and spiritually charged manner, combining Eastern calligraphic sensibilities with Western abstraction in ways that closely parallel Tobey's white writing approach.

Twombly built his entire practice around calligraphic gestural marks and scrawled white linear passages against tonal grounds, creating works charged with the same meditative and quasi sacred energy that defines Tobey's white writing technique.