Winner for 1976
Finalists for 1976
- Rick Amor - Joan Lindsay
- Ian Armstrong - Judith Rodriquez
- Charles Billich - Portrait of Barry Humphries
- John Bloomfield - Thelma Clune
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Orban
- Peter Chapman - Barry Stern
- Kevin Connor - Alan Geddes
- Janet Dawson - Bill Arabin, myself and others
- Merryll Evans - Reg Livermore
- Frederick Fullerton - Sir Douglas Parker
- Anne Hall - John Perceval
- Stephen Kaldor - Leo Stein
- Jack Noel Kilgour - June MacDonald
- Geoff La Gerche - Chandler Coventry
- Keith Looby - Jan Senbergs
- David Ryley Marshall - Portrait of D.W.
- Margaret Mezaks - His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, Mr Walter Crocker
- John Money - Self portrait
- Lesley Pockley - Sir David Griffin
- Clifton Pugh - The Honourable Neville Wran, Premier of N.S.W.
- John Rigby - Portrait of Margaret
- Gordon Shepherdson - Gil Jamieson
- Eric Smith - Hector Gilliland
- Joshua Smith - Norman Whymark
- Joshua Smith - Julie Starr
- Graham A Thorley - A Kimberley Pioneer (Joan Thorley)
- Brett Whiteley - Self portrait in the studio (Winner: Archibald Prize 1976)
- Fred Williams - Sir Louis Matheson, First Vice-Chancellor, Monash University
- Peter Wright - Brett Whiteley
