Winner for 1959
Susan WrightThe Circus
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1959
Finalists for 1959
- Frederic Bates - Around the Bandstand
- Robert Dickerson - Stable Boys
- Maximilian Feuerring - Painter and Model
- Garran-Brown - Pink and Blue
- Thomas Gleghorn - Paperboys
- A S Harris - When We Were Very Young
- H F Weaver Hawkins - Boat Repairing
- Sali Herman - At the Studio
- Sali Herman - The Swy School
- Kenneth Jack - The Barrowman
- Jack Noel Kilgour - After Work
- Cec Knight - Boys with Elephant
- Cec Knight - Child's World
- Jack Koskie - Crutching Time, Bicheno
- Elwyn Lynn - Sundown
- Herbert McClintock - Outback Discussion
- Jon Molvig - A Ballad of Native Stockmen, No. 1
- Jon Molvig - A Ballad of Native Stockmen, No. 2
- John Rigby - Shipyards
- John Rigby - Street Corner
- Jeffrey Smart - Children Fleeing from a Tornado
- Molly Stephens - Centre Practice
- Ilse Tauber - On the Lake
- C G Taylor - Sons of Helios
- Wallace Thornton - The Bathers
- Dora Toovey - Native Camp, Ayers Rock
- Mary Troy - At the Milliners
- Mary Troy - Fruit Offering
- Susan Wright - The Circus
