Winner for 1989
John OlsenDon Quixote Enters the Inn
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1989
Finalists for 1989
- Lindsay Churchland - One, Two, Three, Four
- John Coburn - The Garden
- Richard Crichton - Well Spring
- John Doherty - 135-133 Burke St. Sydney, Feb. ’89 [sic]
- Ruth Faerber - Jerusalem Passion
- Joe Furlonger - 2 Women & 1 Child
- George Gittoes - The Chair
- Peter Griffen - Bike
- Geoff Harvey - The Good Shepherd
- Mark Hislop - The Gift
- Robert Juniper - A Pearl Family, Broome
- Kerrie Lester - Duck Out for Lunch
- Bob Marchant - Jimmy Sharman’s Boxing Troupe at the Dimboola Regatta
- Simon Mark - The Denial
- John Olsen - Don Quixote Enters the Inn
- Henry Price - Committee for the Future (Three Fates Conspiring)
- Paul Ryan - Southerly in Wollongong
- Timothy Schultz - Appelles
- Andrew Sibley - The Brisbane Panel (Aspects of a Tropical Paradise)
- Shaun Laurie & Wake-Mazey Smith - Confession
- John R Walker - Woman of Stanmore
- Guy Warren - Daphne in the Forest
- Brett Whiteley - Sunday Afternoon, Surry Hills
- Salvatore Zofrea - Psalm 37: After Uccello II
