Art Gallery of South Australia Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson, and Sidney Nolan. The gallery holds works by twentieth century South Australian artists including James Ashton, Hans Heysen and Jeffrey Smart. European landscape paintings include works by Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Salomon van Ruysdael, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Camille Pissarro. British portrait painters are well represented in the collection which includes Robert Peake, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely and Thomas Gainsborough. Other works include paintings by Goya, Francesco Guardi, Pompeo Batoni and Camille Corot. Sculpture includes works by Rodin, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Jacob Epstein. Selected Australian works Selected international
Jacob Epstein (spy) the Gnome Project, which was the secret plan to free Ramón Mercader, Leon Trotsky's murderer, from jail. Epstein is referenced in Venona decrypt 800 New York to Moscow 28 May 1943, and another decrypt on 30 May 1943. The material cites Epstein as having placed two agents in the prison where Mercader was held. The plan called for moving Mercader out of Mexico once the jailbreak was made. Venona decrypt 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944 identifies Anna Colloms, while on a courier mission to Mexico, reporting the KGB detected surveillance of Ruth Wilson, Epstein's wife, and Colloms,