 In 1958 he resigned from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts for the same reasons.He later published a short book, "Great Art to the Grotesque" with an introduction and biographical sketch by Roy Greenaway, as a full statement of his rejection of the artistic worth of abstract or "Modern Art".In 1958, Forbes, Manley MacDonald, Victor Llewellyn Child, Gordon Roy Conn and others established the Ontario Institute of Painters as a body for traditional or "realist" artists.