Winner for 1956
William DargieMr Albert Namatjira
Winner: Archibald Prize 1956
Finalists for 1956
- Mary Abbott - Imogen Osborne
- S Antonini - Joycelin [sic]
- Alan D Baker - Rev. Douglas Coles
- Alan D Baker - Self Portrait
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - Claude Hotchin
- Mary Brady - R. H. Powers, Esq.
- Mary Caldersmith - Sister Jones
- Donald Cameron - George Pitt, Esq.
- Reg Campbell - Evelyn Campbell
- Reg Campbell - L. C. Nock, Esq.
- Jack Carington Smith - Lucien Dechaineux
- Jack Carington Smith - Sir Samuel Wadham
- Leonard Henry Carter - Self Portrait
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Mr. Frank Packer
- Barry Chamberlain - Eric Thorne
- Louise Cornwell - Lieut.-Gen. Garrett
- Ronald William Crawford - William Dolphin
- George Crossley - Mr. S. Forster
- Joseph Dainer - The Hon. J. J. Cahill, M.L.A.
- William Dargie - Mr Albert Namatjira
- William Dargie - Air Vice-Marshal F. M. Bladin, C.B., C. B.E.
- Aileen R Dent - Brin Newton John, Esq., M.A.
- Mary Edwards - Miss Thelma Attwood
- Bruce Fletcher - Lynette
- Bruce Fletcher - Mr. J. T. Tomasetti
- Donald Friend - Portrait of Nicholas Harvey
- Owen Garde - Mr. Paul Thomas
- Garran-Brown - Namatjira in Sydney
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - The Hon. R. J. Heffron, M.L.A.
- Newton Hedstrom - Jim Healy
- Ivor Hele - Right Rev. B. P. Robin
- Ivor Hele - Mr. I. B. Jose, M.C.
- Sali Herman - James Joyce Esq., Prince of Wales Island
- Tom Hubble - Joe Holloway
- Iljachapoff - Portrait of Ruby Rich
- Graeme Inson - Roderick Shaw
- Kenneth Jack - Self Portrait
- Peter James - Jack Dunleavy
- Georgina Kalmar - Henri Le Grand, Centring Clay
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Rev. Keith Dowding
- Michael Kmit - Ruth Faerber
- Eric Knight - Portrait of Olaf Ruhen
- Valerie Lazarus - Wendy Solling
- Valerie Lazarus - Rabbi L. A. Falk
- Vaike Liibus - Joshua Smith
- Alan Martin - Alan Marshall
- Charles McKervey - Frank Hilder, Esq.
- Mary Elizabeth McLeish - Mrs. Alan Brett
- Leonard Victor Mitchell - Ngaio Marsh
- Jon Molvig - Self Portrait
- Jerrold Nathan - Mrs. C. Dale
- Clif Peir - Miriam Hyde
- L Scott Pendlebury - Brett Randall
- William Pidgeon - Mr. Ben Freshwater
- Theo Scott - Miss Marie Carberry
- Joshua Smith - Self Portrait
- Joshua Smith - Vaike Liibus
- Wallace Thornton - Mrs. Hugh Hamilton
- Charles Wheeler - Mrs. William Abrahams
- Clive Wilbow - A Painter of Still Life
