 As described, some of her work is related to the so-called "drip paintings" of Jackson Pollock, who "'admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him'".The critic Clement Greenberg, with Jackson Pollock, saw Sobel's work there in 1946, and in his essay ""'American-Type' Painting"" cited those works as the first instance of all-over painting he had seen, but this style is attributed to appropriated female nature rather than to artistic creativity; her art evolved from recognizable figures to a more abstract style of paint dripping.