Hunting

A child of privilege (her father managed the family’s rental properties), Elizabeth Olds spent her Minneapolis childhood entering swimming races and horse shows. Her love of horses is displayed in this print. It shows a hunter becoming distracted when he thinks his jacket has gotten snagged on the ears of a passing horse. The unsettled sky suggests the calamity to follow. Olds was such an accomplished horsewoman that while living in Paris in the 1920s she worked as a trick bareback rider in the circus. She sketched the horses between performances.