 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.During World War I, Blumenschein led a national effort to produce range-finder paintings used to help train military gunners.