Winner for 1971
Clifton PughSir John McEwan
Winner: Archibald Prize 1971
Finalists for 1971
- Ian Armstrong - Welkie Sutton, Australian bushman
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - Margaret Court
- Reg Campbell - Evonne Goolagong
- Peter Dorahy - D. J. Mahoney, M.L.A.
- Sali Herman - Self portrait
- Graeme Inson - Ivy Shore
- Gareth Jones-Roberts - Portrait of Norma
- Michael Kmit - Dennis Colsey
- Nigel Murray-Harvey - Tom Gleghorn
- Clifton Pugh - Sir John McEwan
- Rollin Schlicht - Self portrait
- Andrew Sibley - Rt Hon. Arthur Calwell, M.H.R.
- Eric Smith - John Olsen
- Lillian Sutherland - Salvatore Zofrea
- Margaret Woodward - Self Portrait
- Guido Zuliani - R. Just, artist
- Reinis Zusters - William Peascod