Sheeler was a close contemporary of Schamberg who similarly explored modernist abstraction and Precisionist geometric forms using drawing and pastel on paper. Both artists worked within the American avant garde movement of the 1910s, distilling industrial and architectural subjects into clean abstract compositions.

Hartley created bold modernist abstractions on paper using pastel and other dry media during the same era, drawing from European Cubist and Expressionist influences just as Schamberg did. His works share the same experimental approach to abstract form and modernist compositional structure.

Dove was a pioneering American modernist who created abstract compositions on paper that similarly broke from representational tradition in the 1910s. His use of pastel and paper as vehicles for abstract formal experimentation closely parallels the qualities seen in this Schamberg composition.