Biography
The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established in 1881, is located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the second largest state art collection in Australia, with a collection of almost 45,000 works of art. The Gallery is renowned for its collections of Australian art, including indigenous Australian and colonial art, from about 1800 onwards. The Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund enabeld the Contemporary Art Society, London to purchase works by modern British artists for AGSA such as Tristram Hillier, Ivan Hitchens and Mary Potter whilst Terry Frost, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and Sean Scully were acquired and presented to them throughout the 1970s-80s.
