The Kortz Center Heist adds four paintings you can lift from the gallery, and each one hides callbacks to older and current Rockstar Games projects. The art styles are wildly different, but every canvas is stuffed with characters, locations, and running jokes pulled from across the GTA and Red Dead Redemption universes.
Quick answer: The four revealed paintings reference North Yankton’s Ludendorff Church and Beaver, the “Deal” ending of GTA 4’s “Mr. & Mrs. Bellic” mission, the Vinewood mansion rabbit glitch, and a crowd scene featuring dozens of GTA and Red Dead characters signed by S. P. Carroll.
North Yankton church and the Ludendorff Beaver
The first painting is styled like an American frontier western. It shows a lone rider on horseback moving toward a snowy town full of people, with a large building standing directly ahead that reads as a church.
Look closely and the building matches the Ludendorff Church in North Yankton, with the Ludendorff Beaver tucked into the background. North Yankton is the GTA 5 town where Michael, Trevor, and Brad attempt a bank robbery that goes wrong. The rider carrying a bow and arrow in the foreground pushes the scene toward Red Dead Redemption territory, blending the two settings into one snowy image.
GTA 4’s ending painted in Caravaggio’s style
The second canvas is a Caravaggesque piece, echoing the dramatic lighting of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It depicts a man collapsing to the ground while the people around him react with shock and horror. A woman in a white dress kneels beside him, hinting at a wedding day.
This recreates the “Deal” ending from the “Mr. & Mrs. Bellic” mission in GTA 4. The fallen figure is Roman, who is shot during the scene. Mallorie is the woman in white kneeling next to him, and the stunned man standing at the back of the crowd is Niko Bellic.
The mansion rabbit glitch, immortalized in a Hockney-style pool scene
The third painting borrows David Hockney’s poolside look. A man in a yellow suit stands at the edge of a swimming pool, looking down at a rabbit floating in the water, with the Los Santos skyline stretched out behind him.
Recent GTA Online players will recognize this instantly. It references the glitch where rabbits kept spawning in and around the swimming pool at the Vinewood Residence mansion. The land the mansion was built on already spawned rabbits frequently, so when the property was placed on top of it, some rabbits appeared underneath and suffocated, while others popped up directly inside the pool.
The L.S. Lowry crowd scene and its cast of characters
The fourth painting is modeled on L.S. Lowry’s busy street scenes, with figures wandering in front of an industrial factory and its smoking chimneys. It is signed S. P. Carroll in the bottom-right corner. This is the densest easter egg of the set, packing in faces from both the GTA and Red Dead Redemption franchises.
Here is who appears in the crowd and where each character comes from.
| Character | Origin |
|---|---|
| CJ | GTA San Andreas |
| Wu Zi Mu | GTA San Andreas |
| Dutch | Red Dead Redemption |
| Lester | GTA 5 |
| Chop | GTA 5 |
| Alien | GTA 5 |
| Sasquatch Hunter | GTA 5 |
| Sasquatch | GTA 5 |
| Freidlander | GTA 5 |
| Jaspers | GTA 5 |
| Lost MC member | GTA 5 |
| The Gooch | GTA Online |
| Georgina | GTA Online |
| Dunce | GTA Online |
| Omega | GTA Online |
| Casino Valet | GTA Online |
| Avon | GTA Online |
| Jolena ghost (on top of the left-most chimney) | GTA Online |
| Zombie | — |
How the paintings fit into the heist
The Kortz Center Heist releases on July 14, 2026, and the whole job revolves around swapping forgeries for the real artwork hanging inside the museum. You first need a Mansion property with the new Art Studio expansion, where a counterfeiter paints convincing replicas for you to carry into the gallery.
After buying the Art Studio, you complete the scope-out and prep missions, then choose which paintings to target and bring the matching fakes. Staying stealthy matters for your payout. If you are spotted taking a specific painting, that piece drops in value and pays out less, so a quiet run maximizes the take.
Once the heist is done, you can either sell a primary target to Mr. Faber’s buyers or keep it and hang it inside your Mansion. Three featured paintings rotate into the heist each week, so the easter-egg-filled canvases above are only the opening set of what will be a steadily changing gallery to plunder.
