Lists of Archibald Prize finalists

The page List of Archibald Prize winners provides a summary of Archibald Prize winners.
This page provides directions to Lists of finalists of the annual Australian Archibald Prize for portraiture.

Lists of finalists

Notable Archibald artists

There is a number of artists who have been judged finalists more than twenty times. (Many of these have never won the main prize.) These include:

• Bill Leak
• Keith Looby
• Robert Hannaford
• L. Scott Pendlebury
• Jenny Sages

Notable subjects

Besides the winners, there have been many hundreds of Archibald finalists featuring portraits of Australian celebrities, including musicians, athletes, politicians, film-makers and artists. Some selected^{[by whom?]} ones: (listed Artist – Subject)

1979

• Lance Bressow – Dame Joan Sutherland
• Josonia Palaitis – The Honourable John Howard, M.P.
• L. Scott Pendlebury – Anne and Drew Pendlebury (Actress and Musician respectively)^[47]

1980

• Charles William Bush – Sir John Kerr

1981

• William Dargie – Joh Bjelke-Petersen

1982

• Rex Dupain – Max's Muse (Max Dupain)
• Geoff La Gerche – Patrick White
• Ted Markstein – The Great White Hope in the Land of the Blind (Patrick White)^[48]

1983

• Wesley Walters – Molly

1984

• Keith Looby – Max Gillies
• Wesley Walters – Portrait of Colleen McCullough

1985

• Susan Rothwell – Peter Weir

1986

• Naomi Berns – David Williamson
• Fred Cress – David Armstrong

1987

• Keith Looby – Manning Clark

1988

• Leeka Gruzdeff – Don Burrows
• Sidney Nolan – Arthur Boyd at Fitzroy Falls

1989

• Tim Harris – The Doug Anthony All Stars with the Risen Elvis
• Bernd Heinrich – Thomas Keneally
• Bill Leak – Sir Donald Bradman
• Brett Whiteley – Portrait of Francis Bacon

1990

• Glenda Jones – Kaz Cooke

1991/1992

• Vladas Meskenas – Dr Victor Chang
• Rosemary Valadon – The Long Afternoon – Portrait of Dr Germaine Greer

References

External links

• The Archibald Prize official website
• Art Prizes Database at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Lists of Finalists:
1920s:             

• 1921;
• 1922;
• 1923;
• 1924;
• 1925;
• 1926;
• 1927;
• 1928;
• 1929

1930s:

• 1930;
• 1931;
• 1932;
• 1933;
• 1934;
• 1935;
• 1936;
• 1937;
• 1938;
• 1939

1940s:

• 1940;
• 1941;
• 1942;
• 1943;
• 1944;
• 1945;
• 1946;
• 1947;
• 1948;
• 1949

1950s:

• 1950;
• 1951;
• 1952;
• 1953;
• 1954;
• 1955;
• 1956;
• 1957;
• 1958;
• 1959

1960s:

• 1960;
• 1961;
• 1962;
• 1963;
• 1964;
• 1965;
• 1966;
• 1967;
• 1968;
• 1969

1970s:

• 1970;
• 1971;
• 1972;
• 1973;
• 1974;
• 1975;
• 1976;
• 1977;
• 1978;
• 1979

1980s:

• 1980;
• 1981;
• 1982;
• 1983;
• 1984;
• 1985;
• 1986;
• 1987;
• 1988;
• 1989

1990s:

• 1990;

     1991/92;    

• 1993;
• 1994;
• 1995;
• 1996;
• 1997;
• 1998;
• 1999

2000s:

• 2000;
• 2001;
• 2002;
• 2003;
• 2004;
• 2005;
• 2006;
• 2007;
• 2008;
• 2009

2010s:

• 2010;
• 2011;
• 2012;
• 2013;
• 2014;
• 2015;
• 2016;
• 2017;
• 2018;
• 2019

2020s:

• 2020;
• 2021;
• 2022