Autumn at Scarsdale Golf Club
Scarsdale Golf Club has a quality that is hard to find at most courses. The parkland setting in Westchester County gives you mature trees, rolling terrain, and water features that look completely different with every season. Autumn is when the course is at its most dramatic and this painting was designed to capture that exact moment.
The composition was built from reference photography taken on location at Scarsdale Golf Club. The wide landscape format allows the clubhouse, water, and surrounding trees to share the canvas equally so you get the full scope of the autumn scene in one view.
Aimee Smith is an oil painter specializing in golf course landscapes. Her work has been featured in Golf Digest and she holds official licensing agreements with the world's most prestigious courses including St Andrews Links, Royal Dornoch, Pebble Beach, and Valderrama. She accepts a limited number of private commissions each year for collectors who want to bring their favourite course home.
Scarsdale Golf Club is a private golf club located in Hartsdale in Westchester County, New York. Established in 1898, it is one of the oldest clubs in the county and is known for its classic parkland layout, mature tree-lined fairways, and scenic water features. The club has a rich golfing tradition and its historic clubhouse is one of the most recognisable landmarks on the course.
Painting Scarsdale Golf Club in Autumn
There are courses that look good all year round and then there are courses that have one season where everything comes together. Scarsdale Golf Club in autumn is one of those moments. The mature hardwoods that line the fairways turn gold and amber and the light drops low enough to warm everything up. When the collector approached Aimee about this commission the brief was simple. Capture the clubhouse view in fall.
The challenge with a painting like this is balancing the architecture with the natural setting. The Scarsdale Golf Club clubhouse is an iconic part of the course but the water feature and the trees are what give the scene its atmosphere. The 24 by 48 inch landscape format allowed both to coexist without one overpowering the other.
The colour palette leans heavily into warm autumn tones with the greens of the fairways providing contrast against the surrounding foliage. Every reflection in the water was painted by hand to capture the stillness of an autumn afternoon at Scarsdale Golf Club.
This original Scarsdale Golf Club painting is now in a private collection. If you are interested in commissioning a painting of your home course, a favourite club, or a hole you will never forget, Aimee welcomes inquiries at hello@aimeesmithstudios.com.
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