 In 1923, he refused to accept the position of secretary of the Society, giving his commitment to an office of "The New Mexico Painters", another group he had helped form, as his reason for the refusal.The other members of the Society refused to accept his excuse, and after a heated argument, Blumenschein resigned from the Society.The style of painting of the Taos painters was to decisively influence the perceptions that the wider world came to have of the American Southwest, specifically of the Pueblo and Navajo Indian peoples.