Winner for 1940
Max MeldrumDr J. Forbes McKenzie
Winner: Archibald Prize 1940
Finalists for 1940
- Harold Abbott - Dr W. Arundel Orchard
- J Muir Auld - Self Portrait
- Alan D Baker - Mr Hamilton
- Normand Henry Baker - Self Portrait
- Normand Henry Baker - Stella
- Rex Battarbee - Chief Kamutu
- Margaret Beatty - Miss Lorraine Barnes
- AT Bernaldo - Edwin Rechner, Esq.
- AT Bernaldo - Colonel W. W. Whittle
- Ernest Buckmaster - Self Portrait
- Walter Edmund Burney - Beatrice
- Charles William Bush - Self Portrait
- James Cant - Waterside Worker
- Jack Carington Smith - Miss Barbara Swift
- Frank R Carter - Dr William Maloney
- Frank R Carter - William Prendergast, M.A., LL.B.
- Frank R Carter - Christopher Coe
- Norman Carter - Dr William Wood
- Norman Carter - Captain P. G. Taylor, E.G.M., M.C.
- Margaret Cilento - Sir Raphael Cilento, K.B.E.
- Margaret Coen - Mr Douglas Stewart
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Russell Hooper
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Graeme Pennington
- Archibald D Colquhoun - Mrs S. Robinson
- Archibald D Colquhoun - Douglas I. Menzies
- Bruce M Cousin - Nan
- William Dargie - Daryl Lindsay
- William Dargie - Master Paul Warner
- Sue Dennett - "Borzoi" - Igor Schwezoff
- Aileen R Dent - Madam Gregor Wood
- Aileen R Dent - Rev. J. Noble-MacKenzie
- Aileen R Dent - Professor John Gillies
- William Dobell - Miss Dorothy Helmrich
- Douglas Dundas - Miss Dorothy Thornhill
- Mary Edwards - Self Portrait
- Mary Edwards - Mrs John R. Carey
- Elsie Elder - Captain John Collins
- Nell Eveston - Miss Mary Punch
- Nell Eveston - Miss Jean Punch
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Self Portrait
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Mr A. C. H. Edwards
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs Henry Murdoch
- John Barclay Godson - Selma, daughter of Mrs V. Walder
- John Barclay Godson - Mr Alfred Hill
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs Alex. Sverjensky
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs A. Watson-Mason
- John Barclay Godson - Madge, daughter of A Watson-Mason Esq.
- N Govett - Sir Stanley Argyle
- Gwendolyn Grant - Hon Sir James Blair, K.C.M.G.
- Leonard James Green - Mrs Tom Luxton, Jnr.
- Thomas J Haberley - Self Portrait
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Judge Moffitt
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - H. Neville Smith, Esq.
- Sylvia Harris - Mrs J. Doren
- Sylvia Harris - Prof. J. V. Duhig, M.B., F.R.A.C.P.
- John R Heath - Dr R. V. Hennesy, F.R.C.S. ( Eng. ) [sic]
- John R Heath - Self Portrait
- John J Hennessy - Self Portrait
- Malcolm C Hone - Portrait
- Tom Hubble - Miss Hargreave
- Tom Hubble - Douglas M. Barrie
- Wyclif E Huston - Dr Max C. McAlister, LL.B.
- Rupert Hutter - H. S. Elvin, Esq.
- Mollie G Johnson - Self Portrait
- Herbert Kemble - Frank D. Clulow
- Herbert Kemble - Miss Merle Greenwood
- Clement Charles Kennedy - Miss Jeanie Rankin
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Mrs J. Kelly
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Self Portrait
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Nancy Kilgour
- Frederick William Leist - Dr H. N. Schlink, M.B., Ch.M., F.R.A.C.S., F.R.G.S.
- Arthur Lindsay - Portrait
- Charles Salis Lloyd - J. K. Moir, Esq.
- Oliver Long - Wolfgang Cardimatis
- Eva Georgina Lucas - Portrait
- Tempe Manning - Mr W. A. Byram-Mansell
- Tempe Manning - Christine Patricia Manning
- Tempe Manning - Miss Bee Metcalfe
- Howard Winton Matthews - Gerald de Vahl Davis, B.A., A.R.G., B.Sc.
- Howard Winton Matthews - Alfred Burke
- Maxwell - Geoffrey
- Winifred McCubbin - Susan, daughter of the Artist
- Herbert W McCulley - Self Portrait
- Frank Medworth - Muriel, Wife of the Artist
- Matthew Charles Meere - Robert le Gay Brereton
- Matthew Charles Meere - H. Naylor
- Matthew Charles Meere - Freda Robertshaw
- Max Meldrum - Dr J. Forbes McKenzie
- Max Meldrum - The Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University
- Henry W Minton - Portrait
- Nancy Moffat - Mrs Clarence Weber, M.L.A.
- Alan Moore - Self Portrait
- Arthur J Murch - R. Windeyer, Esq., K.C.
- Jerrold Nathan - Dr Cecil Pursor, B.A., M.B., Ch.M., F.R.A.C.P.
- Jerrold Nathan - Sir John Butters
- Jerrold Nathan - Mrs Bertha Maxwell
- Jerrold Nathan - Mrs C. Bede Maxwell
- Percival James Norton - E. Cochrane-Emerton, Esq.
- Roy Opie - Mr Alan Eddy
- Thelma Parr - Zara Brett
- Esther Paterson - Herman Gill, Esq.
- Esther Paterson - Self Portrait
- C W Peck - Paddy, Patsy and Pat
- C W Peck - Self Portrait
- C W Peck - Flying Officer W. Geoffrey Campbell
- Clif Peir - Miriam Hyde
- Russell W Phillips - Self Portrait
- Russell W Phillips - Portrait
- M Prowse Carey - John
- James Quinn - Percival Serle
- James Quinn - Archbishop Mannix
- Walter Rayment - Gunner Lawrence Rayment
- Ingrid Rayner - Self Portrait
- Eileen M Robertson - Self Portrait
- Jules Henry Roy Rousel - Sydney Long, A.R.E.
- Jules Henry Roy Rousel - O. H. Hudson, Esq.
- John Rowell - George Allen, Sculptor
- John Rowell - Miss Lew Ton
- John Rowell - Mr Louis Lavater
- William Rowell - Self Portrait
- William Rowell - Harrison Owen, Esq.
- William Rowell - Judge Foster
- Samuel Rudgley - Self Portrait
- Douglas Russell - The Widow
- A W Sampson - Major C. A. Strachan [sic]
- Eric Saunders - G. Koshnitsky
- Eric Saunders - Miss Ursula Pollock
- Roderick M Shaw - Yvonne Webb
- A J Shepherd - Pioneer
- David Sing - Frere Jean
- David Sing - Miss M. McDermott
- David Sing - Rev. Dr Eris O'Brien
- Joshua Smith - Mr JA Smith
- Joshua Smith - Mrs Mary Wilson Blackwood
- Syd Sullivan - Self Portrait
- Graham A Thorley - A. S. Kenyon, Esq.
- Dora Toovey - Jacqueline, daughter of the artist
- Dora Toovey - Janet Campbell
- Lyall Trindall - F. A. L. Butler, Esq.
- Lyall Trindall - Tom McClelland, Esq.
- Lyall Trindall - Dame Mary Gilmore, D.B.E.
- Alice Turnbull - Self Portrait
- Hayward Veal - Mr G. H. Brown
- Percy Watson - Miss Eva Harris
- Charles Wheeler - John Wilkins, Esq.
- Charles Wheeler - Canon E. S. Hughes
- Harold V Whitlock - Fae
- Harold V Whitlock - Lieutenant Jamieson
- Eric Wilson - Mrs J. Edmondson
- Rita Wilson - Mrs Edwin Wilson
- Joseph Wolinski - Self Portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Surgeon-Capt. Leonard Darby, C.B.E., R.A.N.
- Joseph Wolinski - Colonel Wilfred Vickers
- Joseph Wolinski - Bernard Sugerman, LL.B.
- Joseph Wolinski - Roderic Quinn
- Arnold Zimmerman - Jascha Gopinko
