  About the Artwork
  
  
  The extraordinary position of the figure creates an abstract composition in this large painting based on sketches of sailors working out in a Stockholm bathhouse. By his use of thinly brushed paint applied directly from the tube and by outlining the figure in blue, Jansson further abstracts the dramatic presentation of the foreshortened arching figure in an athletic pose that seems to defy gravity.
  
  
  Title
  Ring Gymnast No. 2
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1912
  
  Artist
  Eugene Jansson
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1862-1915
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Swedish
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 75 1/4 × 79 5/8 inches (191.1 × 202.2 cm)
  Framed: 82 1/2 × 87 × 1 3/4 inches (209.6 × 221 × 4.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1990.291
  
  
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