Brad:  I don't know it without seeing the painting but:

1) The club did publish a history of the course and I'll check my copy to see if there's a reference.

2) Don't be surprised if the painting is of a green on the club's now-9 hole East Course or is even NLE.  Maidstone had 2 "real" courses pre-WW II.  They sold off 9 holes, turned the remaining 9 into the kiddie/beginner slap-it-around track of today and focused on the main course that has cemented their reputation.

I'll get back if I find anything.

Actually, Hassam painted wonderful golf course images, including scenes from Maidstone, all 1923 or immediately thereafter. He had recently moved to East Hampton (1919) and had joined Maidstone, which suggests that he was working with the "new" Maidstone course, esp. as he painted a series of the holes that currently exist and are easily recognizable as such.

Hassam also did a wonderfully evocative painting of the 18th green at NGLA.

From David Goddard's The Maidstone Links

footnote 51 pg. 37:
Childe Hassam, one of the most extrordinary of American Impressionist painters, had been coming to East Hampton since 1898 and later joined Maidstone.  He painted several other studies of the golf course in 1923, all of them before the new course was developed.  In 1926 he painted the fifth and seventh holes of the West Course and the ninth green of the East course.  This green no longer exists.  Hassam executed at least fifteen studies of Maidstone, and several others of the National Golf Links and the course at Ammagansett.  He exhibited eleven of them at the Rehn Galleries in New York in 1924. Several are produced below. (Between ppg 72 and 73 - "The Domed Green" is the third one shown and is dated 1923). "The Water Hazard" was not available, but the club does possess a photograph of it and also a number of others not reproduced here. (Footnote to the statement "A Painting of Childe Hassam's , done in 1923 and called "The Water Hazard", shows the tee (#2 West)  in use to a green not far in the distance.)

tyop corrected 2.28

Redan, it figures - two of the three people shown playing at NGLA are men.

Willie Park dropped that entire 9th fairway by about 10 feet and used all that fill to basically make most of the 7th hole that was apparently previously marsh or even under water.

Good post.

Tom:  How do you know the above fact?  I guess I'm a little naive because I thought the 9th had little work to build it.

Anywhere we can view his golf paintings online?

Thanks Bill,
Did a search as suggested and a google images search; got loads of his work but only one of golf. Too bad.

www.p4a.com/itemsummary/158832.htm

I like his style.
The brilliance of his colors.

Same issue, page 23 is Bob Jones and the Amateur trophy. P25 are the Hassam images.

My first time with Janet.  I think I like her.  

Thanks Tom,

Interesting to look at his non-golf work in color and then these older B&W photos.

Had I seen only his B&W prints from Golf Illustrated, I would I thought, Hmmmm, very bold, staccato strokes in the foreground, reminiscent of van Gogh, not Monet.