How to only change part of the background color?

Hi, I have a figure as my ui. Now I would like to plot something in the middle of the ui:

axes('Position',[.7 .7 .2 .2])
set (gca, 'visible' , 'off' )
set (gca, 'xtick' , [])
set (gcf, 'color', [1,1,1])
axis equal
hold on
plotUnrasterized(h, w, h, w, d, curves, 'bezier', defaultI);
hold off

However, this would set the whole image's background to [1,1,1]. Is there a way to only set the background color of the small axes but keep the background of the figure as before?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

set(gca, 'color', [1,1,1])    %instead of gcf

[xiaojuezi]

Thank you very much!