Winner for 1957
Finalists for 1957
- Harold Abbott - John Winter, Esq.
- Mary Abbott - Patricia Abbott
- Alan D Baker - W. Herman Slade, Esq.
- Reshid Bey - Self Portrait
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - The Hon. Chief Justice of W.A., Sir John Dwyer, K.C.M.G.
- Donald Cameron - Councillor R. Desmond Kennedy, J.P.
- Reg Campbell - Sir Brian Swift, Kt. M.C., M.A., M.D.,(Cantab.), F.R.C.S.(Edin.), F.R.A.C.S., F.R.C.O.G.
- Jack Carington Smith - The Speaker of the House of Representatives, The Hon. J. Mcleay, M.M., M.P.
- Jack Carington Smith - Professor S. W. Carey
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Jim Bendrodt
- Ronald William Crawford - Portrait of R. Malcolm Warner
- William Dobell - Dame Mary Gilmore
- William Dobell - Mr. Cami Gheysens
- Dudley Drew - Ernest Buckmaster, artist
- Clyve Elliott - Helen
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self Portrait
- Bruce Fletcher - Sir Arthur Warner, M.L.C.
- Bruce Fletcher - Self Portrait
- Herbert Flugelman - E. Bremer, Esq.
- Victor Forstmann - Mr Leo McKern, as Ned Kelly
- Kit Goninon - Carol Long
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Mr. Alan Nichols
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Lieut.-General Sir John Northcott, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.
- E A Harvey - Master Antony Harvey
- Ivor Hele - A. R. Downer, M.P.
- Ivor Hele - Self Portrait (Winner: Archibald Prize 1957)
- Sali Herman - Self Portrait
- Nora Heysen - Professor C. G. Lambie, M.C., M.D., F.R.A.C.P., F.R.S., (Ed.)
- Graeme Inson - Peter Lorimer
- Graeme Inson - H. A. Hanke
- Peter James - W. T. Arthur, Esq.
- Vernon Jones - Air Marshal Sir John McCauley, K.B.E., C.B., B.Com.
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Mrs. Jean Higgs
- Garrett Kingsley - Phyllis Brodziak
- K Klingstedt - Mrs. George Sanderson, Sen.
- Michael Kmit - Mrs. Kmit
- Valerie Lazarus - H. D. Arnott, L.L.B., A.R.A.E.
- George Luke - Arnold H. Conrad, F.R.A.I.A., F.R.S.A.
- Enid Mackellar - Mrs. Stephen Roberts
- Alan Martin - Ida Meldrum
- Charles McKervey - Anne
- Mary Elizabeth McLeish - Jack Courier
- Nancy Menetry - Noel Hickey, photographer
- Clem Millward - Limpy Harry
- Leonard Victor Mitchell - Sir John Collins, KBE, CB
- Leonard Victor Mitchell - Dr Nickolai Malko
- Ellis Murphy - Miss Shane Hewett
- Jerrold Nathan - Dr. Stephen Dobell-Brown
- Clif Peir - Jeanette Stedman
- L Scott Pendlebury - Dr. Byron Stanton
- William Pidgeon - Mr. W. A. O'Callaghan
- William Pidgeon - The Right Rev. W. G. Hilliard, M.A. Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Sydney.
- Clifton Pugh - Self Portrait
- A Durham Rayner - K. Stuart Hetzel, M.D., Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Adelaide
- Harold Rubin - Self Portrait
- T John Santry - Mrs. Bailey
- Hans Selke - Self Portrait
- Arnold Joseph Victor Shore - Bill Morphett
- Arnold Joseph Victor Shore - Alice Panton, artist
- Joshua Smith - Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, Kt., O.B.E.
- John Talbert - Elizabeth
- C G Taylor - Self Portrait
- Dora Toovey - Mrs. John Santry
- Dora Toovey - Dr. Jacqueline Jackson
- William Torrance - Artist's Mother
- E A Douglas Watson - Leonie
- Clive Wilbow - Self Portrait
- Clive Wilbow - Mrs. C. T. Wilbow
- Desmond Wood - Frank Hinder
