 In the 1950s, Hughes' reputation grew, especially after he began to be represented by Max Stern, the owner of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal.In 1954, he was one of eighteen Canadian artists commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint a mural for the interior of one of the new Park cars entering service on the new "Canadian" transcontinental train.Each of the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Hughes' was Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.