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The picture is Paul CadmussHerrin Massacre,commissioned byLifemagazine and painted in 193940.

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Paul Cadmus,Herrin Massacre, 1940.

Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

The Young and Evilat David Zwirner, on view through April 13.

And that haunting, hanging mask form shows how these men were always in the shadows as a group.

Not socially but artistically in the shadows, going against the grain.