A 300 piece puzzle of Ernest L. Blumenschein’s, “Dance at Taos”, 1923, oil on canvas painting. From the collection at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Ernest L. Blumenschein was far and away the most well known of the Taos painters during his lifetime. His painstakingly executed canvases, in his distinctive style that was first called “post-impressionist” and later modernist, garnered him a wide and appreciative audience, and numerous awards. His paintings today are held by the most important museum collections in the United States.