The Opening Day

In The Opening Day, Wright portrays the palpable anticipation of a hunt beginning in the crisp air of late autumn. A huntsman in brilliant scarlet, mounted on a muscular bay hunter, pauses to encourage his hounds as they busily scent through the underbrush of a roadside ditch. Behind them, the bare, skeletal branches of winter trees frame a misty background where other riders gather, their forms softening into the atmospheric haze of a classic English morning.

In The Opening Day, Wright portrays the palpable anticipation of a hunt beginning in the crisp air of late autumn. A huntsman in brilliant scarlet, mounted on a muscular bay hunter, pauses to encourage his hounds as they busily scent through the underbrush of a roadside ditch. Behind them, the bare, skeletal branches of winter trees frame a misty background where other riders gather, their forms softening into the atmospheric haze of a classic English morning.