Herrera devoted her career to hard edge geometric abstraction using bold two color compositions on canvas, frequently pairing red and blue or similarly saturated hues in clean planar divisions that closely mirror the stark simplicity of Red Blue.

Noland worked in Color Field painting with flat unmodulated areas of pure saturated color on canvas, exploring how two or more bold colors interact across a shaped or divided surface in ways directly comparable to Kelly's two panel red and blue composition.

Smith pioneered hard edge abstraction with works that divide the canvas into exactly two bold contrasting color zones, often across joined or shaped panels, making his formal and chromatic approach among the closest parallels to Kelly's Red Blue.