Around 1889 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and became the principal of Central Ontario School of Art and Design, now known as Ontario College of Art. Reid taught his students that there is no one way to do things. However, he did believe that everything in art must have two basic rules: anatomy and perspective. "The term anatomy must be made broad enough to cover all forms and their structure, and perspectives to include are visual relations of form and their colour and tone I can conceive these factors being used endless variation to serve the artist for all flights of the imagination." In 1896, Reid visited Paris. There, he developed an interest in landscape painting, and Monet, a fellow painter, encouraged him to break open his brushstrokes to let in light and key up his colour. Sadly, as he got older, Reid's landscapes grew darker, and more traditional, therefore, interest in his work was stunted.

Gossip (1888)

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