We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

🛈 Find out what you need to know before visiting

Wynne Prize 1939

According to the trustees’ minutes, the works ‘nominated for consideration’ for the Wynne Prize 1939, in addition to Will Ashton’s, were the two paintings by Sydney Long and William Rowell’s Central Queensland. Long was a trustee at the time.

  • John Allcot - Near Tumut
  • Will Ashton - Morning Light, Middle Harbour
  • Douglas M Barrie - Southwards to Sydney
  • John Barr - The Ocean Road
  • John Barr - The Cliff Road
  • Howard Barron - Dry Season
  • Howard Barron - Evening Light
  • Rex Battarbee - Gateway of the Finke River, Central Australia
  • Ernest Buckmaster - Evening landscape, Olinda
  • S Bush - Sketch, Tuggerah
  • Enid Cambridge - New England River
  • Enid Cambridge - Tuggerah Lakes
  • Edward J Carroll - June Morning
  • Norman Carter - In a city garden
  • William Chapple - Bush Township
  • William Chapple - Kurrajong
  • William Chapple - Bush Township
  • C M Chard - Storm, Twilight
  • John J Collins - Afternoon in the Valley
  • Lyndon Dadswell - Aboriginal
  • H Davies - Shoalhaven River near Nowra
  • James Davies - Street scene
  • James Emery - Mountain View, Bellbird
  • James Emery - Boatsheds and flats, Lavender Bay
  • Nell Eveston - Canberra
  • Arthur Fleischmann - Motherhood
  • Herbert R Gallop - Midsummer
  • Herbert R Gallop - Long Flat, Hunter River
  • Herbert R Gallop - Providential Cove, Wattamowllee
  • Herbert R Gallop - Welcome Shade
  • John Barclay Godson - Rural Peace
  • John Barclay Godson - Mosman Bay
  • Gwendolyn Grant - The Morning Dip
  • Kenneth Green - Morning, Gloucester
  • Elioth Gruner - The Cloud
  • Elioth Gruner - Mt Tennant
  • L E Hatch - St. Mary's Basilica
  • Edith L Holmes - Mt. Direction, Tasmania
  • Edith C Horrocks - Woolooma Mountain from Invermein, Scone
  • Evan Hughes - North Narrabeen
  • James R Jackson - Evening Landscape near Canberra
  • James R Jackson - Junction of the Cotter River, FC
  • H Jayenn - The Deserted Shack
  • Robert Johnson - Farmyard Study
  • Robert Johnson - Burragorang Valley
  • Peter Kaad - Nepean River, Wallacia
  • Peter Kaad - A Country Lane
  • Peter Kaad - Lengthening Shadows
  • Herbert Kemble - Fortissimo
  • Clement Charles Kennedy - Afternoon
  • Clement Charles Kennedy - Roseville Chase
  • J Noel Kilgour - Landscape
  • Nancy Kilgour - Landscape
  • Nancy Kilgour - Landscape
  • David A King - Landscape with a stream
  • Loma Latour - "Driff"
  • Loma Latour - Dorrie Bailley
  • Albert Leephon - The Old Mill
  • Albert Leyshon - Gum Trees
  • Daryl Lindsay - Smith's Farm, Bacchus Marsh
  • W Lister Lister - Cloud shadows, Jamberoo
  • Leonard H Long - Landscape
  • Sydney Long - Queen's Square
  • Sydney Long - Landscape, Dee Why
  • Gordon McAuslan - Murrumbidgee Gums
  • R McCann - Yarra Valley, Heidelberg
  • R McCann - Floodwaters
  • Alfred Ernest MacDonald - Along the Mehi
  • Isabel Mackenzie - Ti-tree Avenue, Centennial Park
  • Tempe Manning - Midwinter at Bowral
  • H Nevill-Smith - The Inlet, George's River
  • H Nevill-Smith - Creek at Adelong
  • H Nevill-Smith - Early Morning, Blue Mountains
  • Karl Ojansuu - Raymond Lindsay
  • Roy Opie - Two men, two dogs
  • Roy Opie - Noon - Lake
  • C W Peck - Illawarra from Austinmer Heights
  • Wilfred Peisley - Seascape
  • Wilfred Peisley - Landscape
  • Harold Septimus Power - Australian landscape FCT
  • Douglas Pratt - The Nandewar Range
  • Harry Pugmire - Morning, Middle Head
  • Raimondo Rajola - Iolanda
  • Raimondo Rajola - Rosemary Rajola
  • Lloyd Rees - The fields of Burrawang
  • Lloyd Rees - Lane Cove
  • Stuart Reid - Chaffcutting, Carcoar
  • Stuart Reid - Breezy Afternoon, Narrabeen Lakes
  • John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - A bend in the road
  • John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Granite Country
  • William Rowell - Central Queensland
  • William Rowell - Central Australia
  • Albert Rydge - Grey day - Victorian coast
  • Albert Rydge - Houses at Ryde
  • Albert Rydge - View at Meadowbank
  • Albert Rydge - Wamberal Road
  • John Salvana - Australian landscape
  • John Salvana - Milking time
  • Cedric Savage - National Park
  • Cedric Savage - Coral Trees
  • Cedric Savage - Headland
  • Roderick Shaw - The Gap, Avoca
  • Roderick Shaw - Graves - Prospect
  • Reginald Jack Shepherd - Afternoon Shadows in Burragorang
  • Phyllis Shillito - Sydney, 5pm
  • Phyllis Shillito - Cobbitty
  • Arnold Joseph Victor Shore - Bush gully
  • Arnold Joseph Victor Shore - Sunlight morning, Macedon, Vic
  • Arnold Joseph Victor Shore - Australian scene, Macedon, Vic
  • Arthur Smith - Landscape, Lake Macquarie
  • Arthur Smith - Afternoon, George's River
  • E M Spring - Early Morning
  • S Scott Sudlow - Morning light
  • A E Sutton - In a Southern Valley
  • C G Taylor - A garden corner
  • Dorothy Thornhill - Morning on the Hawkesbury
  • Reginald C Thornton - Across the flats, Davistown
  • Dora Toovey - Moorings
  • Frederick Lyttelton Tregear - Cottages, Thirlmere
  • A W Walter - Wallaby Rock, Turon Valley
  • William Montague Whitney - Summer Day, Balmoral
  • Rhys Williams - The Spit, Middle Harbour
  • Arnold Zimmerman - Harbour View