Archibald Prize 1938
Entries: 145 works
Exhibition dates: 21 January to 20 February 1939
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit
Nora Heysen became the first woman to be awarded the Archibald Prize and, at 28, the youngest winner as well. Her win provoked more press comment than any previous award, with some calling for a government inquiry into the judging of the prize. Part of the reason was, again, due to the appropriateness of the sitter; in this case, Madame Elink Schuurman, wife of the consul-general for the Netherlands.
- Harold Abbott - Self-portrait
- A F Andrews - Self-portrait
- A F Andrews - The artist's father
- John Aston - LH Witts, Esq
- James Muir Auld - Lady in black
- James Muir Auld - F Tregear, Esq
- Alan Baker - Miss Videy Ross
- Alan Baker - Self-portrait
- Normand Baker - Alan D Baker, Esq
- Normand Baker - Self-portrait
- A M E Bale - Miss EM Lander
- Rex Battarbee - Albert Namatjira (Arunta artist)
- Ronald Broadley - Self-portrait
- Norman Carter - Hans Heysen
- Norman Carter - A Enes, Esq
- Myra Cocks - Portrait of a lady
- William Gilbert Collins - Self-portrait
- A D Colquhoun - (Title unknown)
- A D Colquhoun - Miss Janet Maloney
- A D Colquhoun - Miss Olga Hausegger
- A D Colquhoun - Miss Janet McEwan
- Thomas Dean - Self-portrait
- Aileen R Dent - Miss Joyce Raymond
- Aileen R Dent - Rev FE Oxer
- Claude S Diston - Lt Col JN Coryn Shaw
- Douglas Dundas - Alfred Cook, Esq
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Self-portrait
- Mary Edwell-Burke - BJ Waterhouse, Esq, FRIBA
- Owen Garde - Self-portrait
- John Barclay Godson - Artist and wife
- Helena Nellie Govett - Portrait
- J H Graham - Joshua Smith
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Mrs Murray Griffin
- A F Hancox - Self-portrait
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Percy Lindsay, Esq
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Miss Sylvia Davis
- John R Heath - Dr WA Morrison, LDS, RCS
- Edward Heffernan - Diane in red
- John J Hennessy - Self-portrait
- Nora Heysen - Mme Elink Schuurman (Winner: Archibald Prize 1938)
- Nora Heysen - The Hon John Lane Mullins
- Leon Hogan - Miss M Parsons
- Ethel Holmes - Portrait of a lady
- Tom Hubble - Frederick E Baume, Esq
- Tom Hubble - Mrs Francis V Molyneaux
- J C Hutchings - Self-portrait
- Rupert Hutter - Self-portrait
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Dr Cecil Purser
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Self-portrait
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Miss Camilla Wedgewood
- Margaret Gordon Johnson - Mrs Grabham
- Bertha Katsch - Gipsies
- Herbert Kemble - Raymond Sinnot, Esq
- Herbert Kemble - Louise Allen
- Herbert Kemble - Dante Arrie
- Herbert Kemble - Geoffrey Cumine
- Clement Charles Kennedy - Meg
- Clement Charles Kennedy - Thea Rowe
- Clement Charles Kennedy - Clement Kennedy
- Garrett Kingsley - Norma
- Garrett Kingsley - Murilla
- Frederick William Leist - Stephanie Day
- Frederick William Leist - C Pearl, Esq
- Frederick William Leist - Mrs Charles, MA
- Herbert W McCulley - Self-portrait
- Alfred Ernest MacDonald - WC Milne, Esq
- Violet M McInnes - Miss Joan Nita
- W B McInnes - Sir Robert Wade
- W B McInnes - Miss Susan Williams
- W B McInnes - Gen Sir Harry Chauvel
- Alex McMurtrie - Dignity and impudence
- Langton Madden - Self-portrait
- Tempe Manning - Peter Lawrence, Esq
- Max Meldrum - Prof W Agar, FRS
- Max Meldrum - Self-portrait
- Miriam Moxham - Henry B Rain, Esq
- Miriam Moxham - Miss Myra Cocks and Elaine
- G Needham - Lionel Shave, Esq
- A E Newbury - WJ Penfold, MB, CM (Edin), BHy (Dunclm)
- Eric Nilan - D Nelson, Esq
- Eric Nilan - DGM Jackson, Esq, MA
- Justin O'Brien - Miss Dorothy Johnston
- Roy Opie - L Reynolds, Esq
- Roy Opie - Mr James Opie
- T R Palmer - Self-portrait
- Esther Paterson - Miss Betty Paterson
- C W Peck - Mrs Drinkwater
- C W Peck - One of the Smith family
- Clif Peir - Miss Ann
- Clif Peir - Miss Kathleen Maxwell
- James Quinn - Rt Hon RG Casey
- Joan E Reid - Portrait of a boy
- Stuart Reid - ARJ Watt, Esq, KC
- C Darcy Rendalls - Portrait of a man
- Eileen M Robertson - My sister
- Mollie Rohr - Miniature
- Mollie Rohr - Portrait of a man
- Mollie Rohr - Self-portrait
- Mollie Rohr - The maid
- Mollie Rohr - The final likeness
- J H R Rousel - Rt Hon Sir Earle Page, KCMG
- J H R Rousel - Thos Porter, Esq
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Murray Griffin, Esq
- William Rowell - Bernard O'Dowd, Esq
- William Rowell - Rt Hon RG Menzies
- William Rowell - Arltingah
- Eric Saunders - Daphne Winslow
- Eric Saunders - Lewis Gooresky
- Eric Saunders - Duncan Macdougall
- Reginald Jack Shepherd - Ald Mrs Fowler
- Reginald Jack Shepherd - Judith Ann
- Albert Victor Simmons - Mrs Thomas
- David Sing - Miss Sanchia Thomasson
- David Sing - Mrs E Thomasson
- David Sing - Mr W Magee
- Joshua Smith - Mrs Louisa Smith
- Joshua Smith - Miss Dymphna Cusack
- Joshua Smith - John Graham, Esq
- W Sprenger - Self-portrait
- E Steitz - The hunter
- M Summers - Self-portrait
- Beulah Symes Leicester - Dr Charles Fenner
- Stephanie Taylor - Mrs Alice Thomas
- Lesbia Thorpe - Mrs Havelock Southwick
- Lesbia Thorpe - Miss Rose Broit
- Frederick Lyttelton Tregear - Miss Badgery
- Lyall Trindall - The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor, Ald N Nock
- Lyall Trindall - Dr BT Edye
- Lyall Trindall - Rubery Bennett, Esq
- Melba van der Velden - Self-portrait
- Charles Wheeler - Mrs FW Dennett
- Charles Wheeler - Ernest Joske, Esq, LLB
- Harold V Whitlock - Edith
- Harold V Whitlock - The blue cape
- Dora Wilson - Alan Marshall, Esq
- Dora Wilson - Miss Sybil Craig
- Joseph Wolinski - Rosine Guiterman, MA
- Joseph Wolinski - Margaret Swann
- Joseph Wolinski - T Stuart Gurr, Esq
- Joseph Wolinski - Roderic Quinn
- Joseph Wolinski - KR Cramp, Esq, OBE, MA
- Joseph Wolinski - CH Harrison, Esq, BA
- Arnold Zimmerman - Here's luck
- Arnold Zimmerman - SG Thorpe, Esq
- Arnold Zimmerman - Bitter wine - self-portrait