Michael Forster spent much of his childhood in the Northern Indian city of Meerut, a land situated in the vast flatness of the Ganges plain.
Clark was hanged while the pregnant Mrs Fulham was sentenced to life imprisonment and died of heat stroke the following year.
The effects of the economic depression in Europe discouraged Forster from pursuing an artistic career in France or England, so he emigrated to Canada.
Also in 1938, he saw a Surrealist exhibition curated by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose in Toronto which profoundly affected his artistic style.
After the war, he became familiar with Jean-Paul Riopelle and the Canadian Automatistes, as well as Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.
He spent the summer of 1944 on a merchant marine ship outside Halifax; later that year, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve.
In a review of the exhibition, Spanish feminist writer Margarita Nelken praised Forster's sense of poetry and emotion.
Two years later, he held a show of new work at the Robertson Galleries, prompting art critic Carl Weiselberger to write: "The supremacy of colour is one of the characteristic qualities of Michael Forster.
Forster expressed his grief in a series of works, fifteen of which were exhibited the following year at the Damkjar-Burton Gallery, in Hamilton, Canada.