Archibald Prize 1931
Entries: 74 works
Exhibition dates: from 30 January 1932 for approximately one month
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit
This year saw the first of what would be many large-scale portraits entered, with M Napier Waller’s work measuring 121.5 × 205.5 cm.
The subject of the winning work by John Longstaff (his fourth win in 11 years) was the president of the Gallery trustees, Sir John Sulman. The portrait had been commissioned by the trustees; Sulman himself withdrew from the judging.
- James Muir Auld - Portrait
- James Muir Auld - Portrait
- Lawson Balfour - Miss P Frost
- Lawson Balfour - Mrs Banks
- Mabel Barling - Portrait
- Dorrit Black - Portrait
- Dorrit Black - Portrait
- Miriam Blakeney - Miss AR Lake
- Bessie Boultbee - Mrs P Garling
- James A Bowman - Col AJ Bennett, CMG, DSO
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mrs Harry Emmerton
- Ernest Buckmaster - AS McMichael, Esq
- Ernest Buckmaster - Rev Canon ES Hughes
- Ernest Buckmaster - Lieut Col FH Wright, VD
- Ernest Buckmaster - Miss Dorothy Cook
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mrs H Buckmaster
- Mary E Byrne - Alderman David Hunter
- Norman Carter - John D Moore, Esq
- Myra Cocks - Portrait
- Colin Colahan - Self-portrait
- M B Coutts - JGV Gould, Esq
- M B Coutts - Mrs Mary Gilmore
- Aileen R Dent - Dr Hamilton Russell
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Cecil Kirk, Esq
- William Frater - Miss Eunice Sharland
- William Frater - The artist's son
- Ray S Gower - Mrs JJ Gower
- Ray S Gower - AG Scott Findlay, Esq, BE
- Ray S Gower - Mrs CC Kent
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Self-portrait
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Self-portrait
- E A Harvey - AJ Murch, Esq
- John J Hennessy - Victor Cobb, Esq
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mrs Florence Taylor
- Justus Jorgensen - Captain SJE Jorgensen
- Justus Jorgensen - Dr LA Jorgensen
- Justus Jorgensen - Dr Lily Jorgensen
- Justus Jorgensen - Miss Sonia Skipper
- Herbert Kemble - Arthur Greenaway, Esq
- Frederick William Leist - Dan Green, Esq
- Frederick William Leist - Sylvia
- John Longstaff - Miss Aileen McInerney
- John Longstaff - Sir Frederick Waley
- John Longstaff - Sir John Sulman (Winner: Archibald Prize 1931)
- Louis McCubbin - Portrait of a girl
- Herbert W McCulley - Self-portrait
- W B McInnes - Dr H Talbot Hamilton
- W B McInnes - Geoff
- W B McInnes - M Napier Waller, Esq
- W B McInnes - Portrait
- Tempe Manning - Self-portrait
- John Marsh - Self-portrait
- Marian Montford - Paul Montford, Esq
- Arthur J Murch - EA Harvey, Esq
- A E Newbury - The artist's wife
- Percival James Norton - Dr Charles Anderson, MA
- Percival James Norton - EH Stiefvater, Esq
- Hilda Margaret Owen - Mr Justice Owen
- May Prince - Self-portrait
- May Prince - J Lawson Balfour, Esq
- Alwyn Spence - Jeanne
- Maria Teresa Vigano - Miss Hardanack
- Maria Teresa Vigano - Dr W Maloney, MHR
- Roland Wakelin - Judith
- Roland Wakelin - Bethia Foott
- Roland Wakelin - Roland
- Mervyn Napier Waller - Portrait of Christian Waller
- J S Watkins - AF Canaway, Esq, KC
- Mary Will-Slade - Thomas Berber, Esq
- Mary Will-Slade - Dr GP Darnell-Smith
- Joseph Wolinski - AJ Vogan, Esq, FRGS
- Joseph Wolinski - Miss Kathleen Wishart
- Joseph Wolinski - Rabbi AD Wolinski
- Joseph Wolinski - Steele Rudd, Esq