The most recent showing of Sunset, Edithvale Beach was at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Turner and Australia (2025) – ‘the first major exhibition to survey the profound influence of J.M.W. Turner on Australian art’.
The catalogue observed that Turner ‘explored the extremes of nature in all its glories and perils’1, a sensibility echoed in this Muntz Adams landscape.
Art historian Juliette Peers has described the loose, free brushwork as ‘Turneresque in mood and atmosphere’, noting that Sunset, Edithvale Beach is ‘a heavily impasto-ed view … one of her many small-scale impressionist works with minimal, near abstract subject matter’2.
The painting was also included in Beating About the Bush at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2022 and in Josephine’s retrospective at the Athenaeum Gallery in 1943.
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
