Winner for 1961
William PidgeonRabbi Dr I. Porush
Winner: Archibald Prize 1961
Finalists for 1961
- William Aylward - Karen
- Alan D Baker - Artist's Wife
- Esme Bell - Mrs. R. J. Heffron
- GF Bissietta - Autoritratto
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - Robert Haines
- Shirley Bourne - Eugene Cooper
- Shirley Bourne - Meg Padgham
- Mary Brady - Gregory J. Shanahan, B.Sc., M.Sc.(Agr.)
- Charles William Bush - Self Portrait and Bronze Cat
- Donald Cameron - George Colville
- Reg Campbell - Bob Dyer
- Jack Carington Smith - Senator Elect Alderman Dr. R. J. David Turnbull
- Leonard Henry Carter - Jack Paint
- Judy Cassab - Robert Helpmann
- Kevin Connor - The Honourable Sir Frank Kitto, K.B.E.
- William Dargie - Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Nobel Laureate
- Orlando Dutton - Self Portrait
- Mary Edwards - Risiva Cavuyawa of Tamavua
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self Portrait
- Bruce Fletcher - David
- Guy Grey-Smith - Helen Grey-Smith
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - E. V. Adams, Town Clerk of Sydney
- Newton Hedstrom - C. N. Penglase
- Sali Herman - Mawalan
- Nora Heysen - James McAuley
- Graeme Inson - Ivy Shore
- Graeme Inson - J. D. Storey, I.S.O.
- Jean Isherwood - W. Alan Grainger M.D.S., F.I.C.S., F.A.C.D.
- Kenneth Jack - Self Portrait
- Justus Jorgensen - Self Portrait
- Louis Kahan - Albert Tucker
- Garrett Kingsley - Self Portrait
- Elsa Krist - Professor J. J. Thompson
- Olive Kroening - Paul Mason, M.L.C., D.S.C.
- Michael R Lyons - Bunny Cannon
- Herbert McClintock - Dame Mary Gilmore
- Vladas Meskenas - Weaver Hawkins
- Lucien Michalski - Self Portrait
- Jon Molvig - Harold Holt
- Jean Nethercote - Ola Cohn, A.R.C.A.
- Kathleen O'Connor - Sir Russell Dumas
- Shirley O'Leary - Franco Paisio, Poet
- L Scott Pendlebury - Andor Meszaros, Sculptor
- William Pidgeon - Rabbi Dr I. Porush
- William Pidgeon - Kenneth Slessor
- Gwen Pratt - The Necklet
- Clifton Pugh - Frank Dalby Davison
- Tiiu Reissar - Miss Thomson
- John Rigby - Self Portrait
- Alex Robertson - Lift Driver, Ted Gibson
- Joe Rose - Self Portrait
- Andrew Sibley - Social Secretary, C.W.A., North Queensland
- Joshua Smith - Eli Bannister, Musician
- C G Taylor - Summer Portrait
- Graham A Thorley - The Mad Ringer, Jim Gibson
- Dora Toovey - Roy Fluke
- Thora Ungar - Peter
- Roland Wakelin - Mrs. Roland Wakelin
- Narelle Webster - Bissietta
- Susan Wright - Miss Vera Hrubska
- Reinis Zusters - Self Portrait
