Winner for 1940
Harold AbbottVaucluse Interior
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1940
Finalists for 1940
- Harold Abbott - Vaucluse Interior
- Tom Alban - The Young Stockman
- Ronald Broadley - Serenade
- Ronald Broadley - Threading the Needle
- Ronald Broadley - Serenade
- Ernest Buckmaster - Brass
- Ernest Buckmaster - Still Life
- Jack Carington Smith - Julie's Bath-time
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - The Artist
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - In the bathroom
- Albert Enes - Lunch on the Shore
- Edgar Finlay - The Truant and the Workers
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - The Card Players
- Edith L Holmes - Summer
- Grace Hoy - The Road to Victory - "Follow Me"
- Jack Noel Kilgour - The Wave
- Jack Noel Kilgour - The Fruit Market
- Garrett Kingsley - Gossip
- Matthew Charles Meere - Beach Pattern
- Miriam Moxham - Country Morning
- Edward R Murray - Woodwind and Brass
- Jerrold Nathan - War
- Jerrold Nathan - The Weary Dancer
- Joshua Smith - The Domestic
