Winner for 1951
Finalists for 1951
- Harold Abbott - Jakovljevich Dushan
- Lawrence Alcock - Harry Dearth
- Alan D Baker - Charles Chauvel, Esq.
- Alan D Baker - N. H. Baker, Esq.
- Rex Battarbee - Albert Namatjira
- Jack Bennett - Miss Joan Wilson
- Jack Bennett - Self Portrait
- Reshid Bey - J. O. Watt, Esq.
- Robert A Blake - George Silk, Esq.
- Mary Brady - Portrait Study
- Mary Brady - Self Portrait
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mr. H. A. Pitt
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mrs. A. McLachlan
- Charles William Bush - Self Portrait
- Charles William Bush - Phyl Waterhouse
- Helen Cameron - Roland Oliver Elliott, Sheriff of N.S.W.
- Jack Carington Smith - Lucien Dechaineaux [sic]
- Leonard Henry Carter - Dennis Dwyer
- Norman Carter - Mr. Lloyd Rees
- Margaret Cilento - Lady Cilento
- Dorothy Clemens - Jim MacDougall
- William Gilbert Collins - Dennis Dyer
- Archibald D Colquhoun - Portrait of a Young Artist
- William Dargie - Dr. H. R. G. Poate, M.V.O.
- William Dargie - His Excellency The Governor of N.S.W., Liet-Gen. Sir John Northcott, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., K.St.J.
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - Archer Russell
- Raymond de Cusack - The Late Rt Hon JB Chifley
- Aileen R Dent - Lieut. Col. H.E. Jones, O.B.E.
- Aileen R Dent - Hon. Sir James Kennedy,
- William Dobell - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones
- William Dobell - Lady Lloyd Jones
- Douglas Dundas - Self Portrait
- Mary Edwards - Miss Pamela Kendall
- Mary Edwards - Charles Cousens, Esq.
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self Portrait
- Philip Frankel - Nancy Weir
- Winston Fry - Wife of the Artist
- Owen Garde - Mr. C. P. Smith
- Owen Garde - Mr. H. V. Marr
- Harold Greenhill - Mrs. Dudley Barling
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - The Hon. Mr. Justice T. W. Smith
- Lincoln B Hamilton - Miss Anderson
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - H. W. Grace, Esq.
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - John Dunne, Esq.
- David Harrison - R. T. Tetley. Esq.
- Newton Hedstrom - Malcolm Carbins, Esq.
- Ivor Hele - Laurie Thomas (Winner: Archibald Prize 1951)
- Ivor Hele - E. W. Hayward, Esq.
- Nora Heysen - Norman M. G. Gratton, Esq.
- Nora Heysen - Camille C. Gheysens
- Robert Hofmann - Herbert P. Dickins
- Robert Hofmann - Portrait of a Ship Builder (Dr. Marcel Clynes)
- Graeme Inson - Max Meldrum
- Vernon Jones - Air Vice Marshal F. R. W. Scherger, C.B.E., D.S.O., A.F.C.
- Ena Joyce - Miss Treania Smith
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mr. S. C. Bootes
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mr. J. R. Glasheen, Snr.
- Louis Kahan - George Bell
- A Karafyllakis - Miss A. Mandalis
- Jack Noel Kilgour - The Painter's Wife
- Garrett Kingsley - Dr. Monte Gildea
- Garrett Kingsley - Mrs. Vincent Fairfax
- Harold Lane - Capt. O. A. Godwin
- Harold Lane - Mrs. Marcel Dekyvere
- Charles Lonergaran - News of the Wild, E. J. Hallstrom, Esq.
- Charles Lonergaran - Self Portrait
- Pamela MacFarlane - Professor W. V. MacFarlane
- Herbert McClintock - Portrait of an Australian Artist
- G M McHolme - Self Portrait
- Violet M McInnes - Glenda Raymond
- Matthew Charles Meere - Hon. Colin Sinclair, B.A., L.L.B.
- Matthew Charles Meere - Cyril Hudson
- Graham Moore - Gordon A. Speary
- Arthur J Murch - G. K. Townshend
- Jerrold Nathan - Self Portrait
- Jerrold Nathan - Mrs. Crawford Vaughan
- Clif Peir - Mrs. Marjorie Gray
- L Scott Pendlebury - Self Portrait
- William Pidgeon - Arthur Mailey
- William Pidgeon - Mrs. W. E. Pidgeon
- Walter Rayment - Self Portrait
- John Rowell - Arnold Shore
- Albert Rydge - W. A. Moir, Esq.
- Jim Smith - Max Selig, Esq.
- Joshua Smith - Self Portrait
- Joshua Smith - H. J. Barncastle, Esq.
- C G Taylor - John Alfred
- Graham A Thorley - Self Portrait
- Dora Toovey - Professor Bland, M.P.
- William Torrance - Self Portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Mr. Justice Sugerman
- Reinis Zusters - Mr. John Price Strange
