Wynne Prize
Wynne Prize 1919
Elioth Gruner's 'Spring frost'
Wynne Prize 1986
Rosemary Madigan's 'Torso'
Wynne Prize 2010
Sam Leach's 'Proposal for landscaped cosmos'
The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’.
This open competition is judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW. Finalists are displayed in an exhibition at the Gallery (although in the early years all entrants were hung). Many winning paintings have become icons in Australian landscape art, entering the collections of public galleries, including our own.
The prize was established following a bequest by Richard Wynne, who died in 1895, and first awarded in 1897, in honour of the official opening of the Gallery at its present site.
Related prizes
Entries in the Wynne Prize are also eligible for the following prizes:
- The Trustees’ Watercolour Prize
- John & Elizabeth Newham Pring Memorial Prize
How to enter
Explore past winners and finalists
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| Wynne 2003 finalists | Tim Kyle Seated figure |
| Wynne 2002 finalists | Angus Nivison Remembering rain |
| Wynne 2001 finalists | Aida Tomescu Piatra |
| Wynne 2000 finalists | John Dahlsen Thong Totems |
| Wynne 1999 finalists | Gloria Petyarre Leaves |
| Wynne 1998 finalists | Ann Thomson Yellow sound |
| Wynne 1997 finalists | John Peart Nandi Moon |
| Wynne 1996 finalists | William Robinson Creation Landscape Earth and Sea |
| Wynne 1995 finalists | David Aspden Season of Drought |
| Wynne 1994 finalists | Suzanne Archer Waratahs Wedderburn Series |
| Wynne 1993 finalists | George Gittoes Open Cut |
| Wynne 1991/92 finalists | Peter Marinus Schipperheyn Maschera Femina |
| Wynne 1990 finalists | William Robinson The Rainforest |
| Wynne 1989 finalists | Ian Bettinson Landscape Painting IV |
| Wynne 1988 finalists | Elwyn Lynn Fire and Drought near Old Junee |
| Wynne 1987 finalists | Ian Bettinson Landscape Painting II |
| Wynne 1986 finalists | Rosemary Madigan Torso |
| Wynne 1985 finalists | John Olsen A Road to Clarendon - Autumn |
| Wynne 1984 finalists | Brett Whiteley The South Coast After Rain |
| Wynne 1983 finalists | David Rankin Life Along the Coast |
| Wynne 1982 finalists | Lloyd Rees Morning on the Derwent |
| Wynne 1981 finalists | David Voight Hills of Ravensdale |
| Wynne 1980 finalists | William Delafield Cook A Waterfall (Strath Creek) |
| Wynne 1979 finalists | Robert Juniper Flood Creek |
| Wynne 1978 finalists | Brett Whiteley Summer at Carcoar |
| Wynne 1977 finalists | Brett Whiteley The Jacaranda tree (On Sydney Harbour) |
| Wynne 1976 finalists | Fred Williams Mt Kosciusko |
| Wynne 1975 finalists | Robert Juniper Murchison sand plain |
| Wynne 1974 finalists | Eric Smith Redfern Landscape |
| Wynne 1973 finalists | Clem Millward Dry Landscape |
| Wynne 1972 finalists | Eric Smith Falling Bark |
| Wynne 1971 finalists | Margaret Woodward Karri country |
| Wynne 1970 finalists | Frederic Bates Redfern - Southern Portal |
| Wynne 1969 finalists | John Olsen The Chasing Bird Landscape |
| Wynne 1968 finalists | L Scott Pendlebury Road to Whistlewood |
| Wynne 1967 finalists | Sali Herman Ravenswood I |
| Wynne 1966 finalists | Fred Williams Upwey Landscape V |
| Wynne 1965 finalists | Sali Herman The Red House |
| Wynne 1964 finalists | Samuel Fullbrook Trees in a Landscape |
| Wynne 1963 finalists | Samuel Fullbrook Sandhills on the Darling |
| Wynne 1962 finalists | Sali Herman The Devil's Bridge, Rottnest |
| Wynne 1961 finalists | David Strachan Landscape, Hill End |
| Wynne 1960 finalists | John Perceval Dairy Farm, Victoria |
| Wynne 1959 finalists | Reinis Zusters Harbour cruise |
| Wynne 1958 finalists | Ronald Steuart The Cliff |
| Wynne 1957 finalists | L Scott Pendlebury Constitution Dock, Hobart |
| Wynne 1956 finalists | L Scott Pendlebury The Chicory Kiln, Phillip Island |
| Wynne 1955 finalists | Charles William Bush Townsville Water-front |
| Wynne 1954 finalists | Arthur Evan Read Cooktown |
| Wynne 1953 finalists | Lance Vaiben Solomon The River Bend |
| Wynne 1952 finalists | Charles William Bush Summer at Kanmantoo |
| Wynne 1951 finalists | Matthew Charles Meere Never Never Creek - Gleniffer |
| Wynne 1950 finalists | Lloyd Rees The Harbour from McMahon's Point |
| Wynne 1949 finalists | George F Lawrence Two Rivers |
| Wynne 1948 finalists | William Dobell Storm Approaching Wangi |
| Wynne 1947 finalists | Russell Drysdale Sofala |
| Wynne 1946 finalists | Lance Vaiben Solomon January Weather |
| Wynne 1945 finalists | E A Douglas Watson Old Grain Stores, Greenaugh, W.A. [sic] |
| Wynne 1944 finalists | Sali Herman McElhone Stairs |
| Wynne 1943 finalists | Douglas Dundas The Hilltop |
| Wynne 1942 finalists | E A Douglas Watson Backyards |
| Wynne 1941 finalists | Lorna Nimmo Valley Farms |
| Wynne 1940 finalists | Sydney Long The Lake, Narrabeen |
| Wynne 1939 finalists | John William Ashton Morning Light, Middle Harbour |
| Wynne 1938 finalists | Sydney Long The approaching Storm |
| Wynne 1937 finalists | Elioth Gruner Weetangera, Canberra |
| Wynne 1936 finalists | Elioth Gruner Landscape |
| Wynne 1935 finalists | J Muir Auld Winter Morning |
| Wynne 1934 finalists | Elioth Gruner Murrumbidgee Ranges, Canberra |
| Wynne 1933 finalists | Lyndon R Dadswell Youth |
| Wynne 1932 finalists | Hans Heysen Brachina Gorge |
| Wynne 1931 finalists | Hans Heysen Red gums of the far north |
| Wynne 1930 finalists | John William Ashton Kosciusko |
| Wynne 1929 finalists | Elioth Gruner On the Murrumbidgee |
| Wynne 1928 finalists | Arthur Streeton Afternoon Light, Goulburn Valley |
| Wynne 1927 finalists | G Rayner Hoff Head |
| Wynne 1926 finalists | Hans Heysen The Farmyard, Frosty Morning |
| Wynne 1925 finalists | William Lister Lister A Bush Track |
| Wynne 1924 finalists | Hans Heysen An Afternoon in Autumn |
| Wynne 1923 finalists | George W L Hirst Head of an Old Man |
| Wynne 1922 finalists | Hans Heysen The Quarry |
| Wynne 1921 finalists | Elioth Gruner Valley of the Tweed |
| Wynne 1920 finalists | Hans Heysen The Toilers |
| Wynne 1919 finalists | Elioth Gruner Spring Frost |
| Wynne 1918 finalists | William Beckwith McInnes The Grey Road |
| Wynne 1917 finalists | William Lister Lister The Wind-swept Marsh Lands |
| Wynne 1916 finalists | Elioth Gruner Morning Light |
| Wynne 1915 finalists | John Christie Wright Knowledge, Fine Art and Commerce |
| Wynne 1914 finalists | Theodore Penleigh Boyd Landscape |
| Wynne 1913 finalists | William Lister Lister Federal Capital Site |
| Wynne 1912 finalists | William Lister Lister Sydney Harbour, Overlooking Taylors Bay |
| Wynne 1911 finalists | Hans Heysen Hauling Timber |
| Wynne 1910 finalists | William Lister Lister 'Mid Song of Birds and Insects Murmuring |
| Wynne 1909 finalists | Hans Heysen Summer |
| Wynne 1908 finalists | John William Ashton Noontide, Burnside |
| Wynne 1907 finalists | George W L Hirst Portrait, H. Garlick, Esq |
| Wynne 1906 finalists | William Lister Lister The Golden Splendour of the Bush |
| Wynne 1905 finalists | Albert J Hanson A Blaze of Blue Noon |
| Wynne 1904 finalists | Hans Heysen Mystic Morn |
| Wynne 1903 finalists | Edward Officer "Glenora", a Tasmanian Township |
| Wynne 1902 finalists | James S White In Defence of the Flag |
| Wynne 1901 finalists | W C Piguenit A Thunderstorm on the Darling |
| Wynne 1900 finalists | Walter Withers Still Autumn |
| Wynne 1899 finalists | George Washington Lambert Across the Blacksoil Plains |
| Wynne 1898 finalists | William Lister Lister The Last Gleam |
| Wynne 1897 finalists | Walter Withers The Storm |
