Cornell similarly assembled found scientific and encyclopedic imagery including anatomical diagrams and natural specimens into intimate collage constructions layered with poetic, associative meaning. His work shares Twombly's impulse to merge printed ephemera with handmade marks to evoke the subconscious and historical memory.

Rauschenberg's combine works and paper collages integrate found printed imagery including scientific and biological illustrations with expressive gestural drawing and crayon marks in exactly the way Twombly does here. Both artists treated the picture surface as a site where cultural fragments and spontaneous mark making collide.

Roth produced densely layered mixed media works on paper combining found printed material, scribbled text, smeared graphite, and organic imagery in a raw and accumulative manner that closely parallels this Twombly collage. His fusion of natural subject matter with obsessive gestural overworking and numerical notations mirrors the specific qualities of this piece.