Winner for 1941
William DargieSir James Elder, KBE
Winner: Archibald Prize 1941
Finalists for 1941
- Normand Henry Baker - Self Portrait
- Caroline Barker - A. J. McGill, Esq., K.C.
- John E Bates - Self Portrait
- S F Bond - Self Portrait
- Ernest Buckmaster - James Quinn
- Maude EM Burrell - C. A. Burrell, Esq.
- Charles William Bush - Portrait (unfinished owing to mobilisation)
- James Cant - A Soldier's Daughter
- Jack Carington Smith - Miss Eileen Brooker
- Jack Carington Smith - Lucien Dechaineux
- Norman Carter - Dr Ian Clunies Ross
- Margaret Coen - Douglas Stewart
- Elaine Coghlan - Mrs R. Schureck
- William Gilbert Collins - Self Portrait
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss K. H. Pearce
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss Jenny Gowans
- William Dargie - Sir James Elder, KBE
- Robert Cameron Davie - Self Portrait
- Aileen R Dent - Dr J. M. Baldwin (Astronomer)
- William Dobell - Miss Elaine Haxton
- William Dobell - Squadron Leader GU 'Scotty' Allan
- William Dobell - Portrait of a Strapper
- Douglas Dundas - Charles Lloyd Jones, Esq.
- Mary Edwards - Self Portrait
- Mary Edwards - Sir Thomas Buckland
- Elsie Elder - Norman Lindsay, Esq.
- Cherie Elliott - Mr Hector
- Cherie Elliott - Wallace Thornton
- Albert Enes - Self Portrait
- Nell Eveston - Dr T. A. Palmer-Benshow, M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lon.)
- Nell Eveston - Colourful head Study
- Naylor Gill - An English Aristocrat
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Mr Ken Jones
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Dorothy Mellor
- Hazel Goddard - Self Portrait
- John Barclay Godson - Rev. H. L. Hurst
- John Barclay Godson - A. H. Yarnold, M.A.
- John Barclay Godson - H. Woolett, Esq., J.P.
- James William Govett - Self Portrait
- James William Govett - Sir John Longstaff
- Leonard James Green - Bill Harris, Australian Skier, Kosciusko
- Leonard James Green - Miss Shirley McGregor
- Paul Haefliger - Girl in Black
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Miss Sylvia Davis
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Sonya Hanke
- Sylvie Wilkins Hawkins - 'Sylvia'
- John R Heath - Self Portrait
- Sali Herman - Mrs Edwards
- Nora Heysen - Sir Lionel Lindsay, Kt.
- Denes Holesch - Mrs Lionel Dare
- Nan Hortin - Portrait
- Tom Hubble - Mrs N. Whatman
- Mollie G Johnson - Mrs B. Robertson
- Mollie G Johnson - Alfred Carson, Esq., O.B.E., J.P.
- Vincent Juradowitch - Misha Burlakov [sic]
- Herbert Kemble - Miss Louise Aitken
- Jack Noel Kilgour - E. S. Rodriguez
- Jack Noel Kilgour - W. J. Coogan, Esq., O.B.E.
- Jack Noel Kilgour - J. and N. Kilgour
- Nancy Kilgour - J. Noel Kilgour
- Frederick William Leist - Mrs Huff Johnston
- Frederick William Leist - Surgeon Lieut. Commander Susman, R.A.N.R.
- Frederick William Leist - Mrs C. J. Wiley
- W F Loonam - Self Portrait
- Lola Mason - Clive Raleigh Evatt, Esq., K.C., M.L.A.
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Sir John Butters
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Self Portrait
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Walter Mohr
- Harry McDonald - A Man of the Western Plains
- Violet M McInnes - Miss Sybil Craig
- Violet M McInnes - Miss Francis de Crespigny
- Matthew Charles Meere - Miss Doris Harrison
- Max Meldrum - Professor E. W. Skeats
- Max Meldrum - Sir David Rivett, F.R.S.
- Henry W Minton - Self Portrait
- Guy McIntyre Mitchell - Mr Johnston
- Kay Munro - R. G. Menzies, Esq. (Former Prime Minister)
- Arthur J Murch - James Cook
- Arthur J Murch - Frank Lumb
- Arthur J Murch - Mrs A. J. Murch
- Jerrold Nathan - David Maughan, K.C.
- Roy Opie - Dr John Dale, O.B.E.
- Esther Paterson - Lieut. Commander G. H. Gill, R.A.N.V.R.
- C W Peck - Light Horse Officer
- Clif Peir - Gordon Anderson, Esq.
- Wilfred Peisley - Madame Le Bras
- Russell W Phillips - Self Portrait
- M Prowse Carey - 'J'
- James Quinn - Nurse 'Billie' Mitchell
- James Quinn - Ernest Buckmaster
- James Quinn - E. M. Pearce, Esq.
- Mollie Rohr - Portrait
- Mollie Rohr - Self Portrait
- Mollie Rohr - Diana
- Jules Henry Roy Rousel - Miss Margaret Rousel
- John Rowell - Miss Lew Ton
- John Rowell - Mr Bernard Cronin
- John Rowell - Mr Mayne Lynton
- William Rowell - Mrs Marie Pitt
- William Rowell - Miss Thelma Champion
- William Rowell - Col. J. H. Clarebrough
- Naomi Sanguenetti - The Dancer
- Roderick M Shaw - Frances Shaw
- Reginald Jack Shepherd - 'Jean'
- Albert Victor Simmons - Lilley A. Sim, Psychic and Seeress
- David Sing - Professor Carl Sauer
- Joshua Smith - Sister M. Deane
- Stephanie Taylor - Dr Ruby Davy
- Stephanie Taylor - Mrs J. Wanderly, B.A.
- Stephanie Taylor - Gillespie Douglas
- Francis Roy Thompson - Boy with a Guitar
- Wallace Thornton - Portrait
- Wallace Thornton - Self Portrait
- Lyall Trindall - The artist's wife
- Hayward Veal - Roderick Quinn, Poet
- E A Douglas Watson - Self Portrait
- E A Douglas Watson - A. A. Watson, Esq.
- E A Douglas Watson - Mrs A. T. Watson
- Percy Watson - Self Portrait
- Charles Wheeler - Self Portrait
- Charles Wheeler - Professor W. J. Young
- Eric Wilson - Mr Raymond Wilson
- Eric Wilson - Miss E. Rankin
- Eric Wilson - The Honorable James McGirr, Esq. M.L.A. ( Minister for Lands and Local Government )
- Rita Wilson - Self Portrait
- Rita Wilson - Miss Ena Wood
- Joseph Wolinski - Jack O'Connor
- Joseph Wolinski - Self Portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - B. Frampton, Esq.
- Joseph Wolinski - Desiderius Orban
- C Dudley Wood - Self Portrait
- C Dudley Wood - Miss E. M. Christensen, M.A.
- Arnold Zimmerman - Self Portrait
