He was hired to teach at the California School of Fine Arts in 1923, but had too many disagreements with the administration about how art should be taught and was dismissed at the end of the semester. He proceeded to open his own art school, the Da Vinci Art School, in the Hawaiian Building on the 1915 exposition grounds, but it closed within months. Around this time he created some site-specific art for the country home of Wood and Field in Los Gatos, California.