Winner for 1953
Lance Vaiben SolomonThe River Bend
Winner: Wynne Prize 1953
Finalists for 1953
- Edgar Edward Aavik - The Last Round
- Edgar Edward Aavik - The Sin
- Uldis Abolins - Katoomba
- Len Annois - The Pentland Hills, Bacchus Marsh
- Harold Ballment - The Virgin Soil, Australia
- Frederic Bates - Aftermath
- W Rubery Bennett - Clune's Retreat, Yarramalong
- Stephen Bransgrave - Small Farm, Tasmania
- Francis J Broadhurst - Last Light, A Gap in the Macdonnell Ranges
- Francis J Broadhurst - Along the Highway
- John J Bruhn - Composition
- Charles William Bush - Rain Forest, Mount Tamborine, Queensland
- Charles William Bush - Maize Fields, Tumbulgum
- Clive W Butler - Argyle Cut
- Clive W Butler - Miller's Point
- CW Butterworth - Lancelot
- Mary Caldersmith - From Waverton
- Leslie A Campbell - Narooma Seascape
- Reg Campbell - Undoolya Gorge, Central Australia
- Herbert Carstens - The Quarry
- James Coleman - New South Wales Coast, Broome's Head
- James Coleman - Yamba Headland, N.S.W.
- Benjamin Collins - Ballet
- Benjamin Collins - Brian Lellard
- Howard Cunningham - Silent Sentinels
- Elsie Dangerfield - Street Scene, Woolloomooloo
- Elsie Dangerfield - Bridge Approach, North Sydney
- Theodore de Roty Fodone - Burragorang Valley Landscape
- George B Duncan - Deserted Farm
- Margaret Dunn - The Fish Markets, South Fremantle
- Moya Dyring - Coppins Crossing, Canberra, A.C.T.
- Moya Dyring - Magnetic Island
- John Eldershaw - Haasts Bluff Walkabout
- C B Elliott - Monday Wash
- P A Fildes - The Land of the Beardies, Glen Innes, N.S.W.
- Ronald R Fletcher - Late Final Extra
- Len Fox - Woolloomooloo is Falling Down
- L Foy - Bobbin Head
- Reuben Gibson - Changing Moods, Lithgow
- Kenneth Green - Lower Kent Street
- Alan R Grieve - Sunday Afternoon
- R C Gumpertz - Moonlight, Bowral
- Leon Hanson - Mount Warning, Tweed Valley
- Elaine Haxton - Tweed River and Mount Warning
- Sali Herman - Sunrise at Wangi
- Jean Howlett - September, Dorrigo
- James Ranalph Jackson - The Quarry at St. Peter's, N.S.W.
- James Ranalph Jackson - Autumn, Bourke, N.S.W.
- Garrett Kingsley - Gum Trees
- Michael Kmit - King's Cross Facade
- George F Lawrence - Darling Harbour
- Elwyn Lynn - Maurice Street
- Matthew Charles Meere - The Garden at Brownlow Hill
- Matthew Charles Meere - Rain and 'Shine on the Bellinger
- George Melrose - Khatbundah Mountain, Wingham [sic]
- C H Moseley - Beach Street, Double Bay
- Jerrold Nathan - Early Morning
- Walter Orthman - Evening Light, Cairns Wharf
- Dudley Parker - In the MacPherson Ranges
- L Scott Pendlebury - The Opera House
- William Pidgeon - Murrurundi
- William Pidgeon - Goat Island
- Douglas Pratt - The Murrumbidgee Near Burrinjuck
- Douglas Pratt - Afternoon Shadows, Burrinjuck
- Harry Pugmire - West Wind
- Arthur Evan Read - Piccaninny Delight
- Arthur Evan Read - Sunday Noon
- Alison Rehfisch - Silver Lining
- John Rigby - Brisbane
- John Rigby - Boonah Landscape
- Raimonds Rumba - To North
- Raimonds Rumba - Girl from Orient
- T John Santry - Caledonian Hotel
- Pearl Sheldon - Annandale Cottages
- Stephen Sims - City of Contrasts
- Stephen Sims - Old Woollahra
- Lance Vaiben Solomon - Blue Day
- Lance Vaiben Solomon - The River Bend
- Frank H Spears - Winter Sunshine
- Jeanette Stedman - Ricketty Jetty, Dora Creek
- Jeanette Stedman - Old Farmhouse
- Lionel H Taprell - Miller's Point from Observatory Hill
- Lionel H Taprell - Boats for Hire, Lilli Pilli
- Harold L Thornton - Darlinghurst
- Dora Toovey - Building the New Spit Bridge
- William Torrance - Brisbane Backwater
- John R Upton - Farm Buildings, Mulgoa
- John R Upton - Afternoon, Camden
- Roland Wakelin - Yarra Valley, Summer
- Rhys Williams - Winds the River Far Below
- Barry Willis King - Peggy
- Alfred Wood - Sunday Morning, Bourke