Archibald Prize 1941
Entries: 133 works
Exhibition dates: 17 January to 18 February 1942
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit
William Dargie was awarded the Archibald Prize for the first time. He would end up winning the prize a total of eight times – a record that has never been matched.
- Normand Baker - Self-portrait
- Caroline Barker - AJ McGill, Esq, KC
- John E Bates - Self-portrait
- S F Bond - Self-portrait
- Ernest Buckmaster - James Quinn
- Maude E M Burrell - CA Burrell, Esq
- Charles Bush - Portrait (unfinished owing to mobilisation)
- James Cant - A soldier's daughter
- Jack Carington Smith - Lucien Dechaineux
- Jack Carington Smith - Miss Eileen Brooker
- Norman Carter - Dr Ian Clunies Ross
- Margaret Coen - Douglas Stewart
- Elaine Coghlan - Mrs R Schureck
- William Gilbert Collins - Self-portrait
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss KH Pearce
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss Jenny Gowans
- William Dargie - Sir James Elder, KBE (Winner: Archibald Prize 1941)
- Robert Cameron Davie - Self-portrait
- Aileen R Dent - Dr JM Baldwin (astronomer)
- William Dobell - Miss Elaine Haxton
- William Dobell - Portrait of a strapper
- William Dobell - Squadron Leader GU 'Scotty' Allan
- Douglas Dundas - Charles Lloyd Jones, Esq
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Sir Thomas Buckland
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Self-portrait
- Elsie Elder - Norman Lindsay, Esq
- Cherie Elliott - Mr Hector
- Cherie Elliott - Wallace Thornton
- Albert Enes - Self-portrait
- Nell Eveston - Colourful head study
- Nell Eveston - Dr TA Palmer-Benshow, MRCS (Eng), LRCP (Lon)
- Naylor Gill - An English aristocrat
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Dorothy Mellor
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Mr Ken Jones
- Hazel Goddard - Self-portrait
- John Barclay Godson - Rev HL Hurst
- John Barclay Godson - H Woolett, Esq, JP
- John Barclay Godson - AH Yarnold, MA
- James William Govett - Sir John Longstaff
- James William Govett - Self-portrait
- Leonard James Green - Miss Shirley McGregor
- Leonard James Green - Bill Harris, Australian skier, Kosciusko
- Paul Haefliger - Girl in black
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Sonya Hanke
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Miss Sylvia Davis
- Sylvia Wilkins Hawkins - Sylvia
- John R Heath - Self-portrait
- Sali Herman - Mrs Edwards
- Nora Heysen - Sir Lionel Lindsay, Kt
- Denes Holesch - Mrs Lionel Dare
- Nan Hortin - Portrait
- Tom Hubble - Mrs N Whatman
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - David Maughan KC
- Margaret Gordon Johnson - Alfred Carson, Esq, OBE, JP
- Margaret Gordon Johnson - Mrs B Robertson
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mischa Burlakov
- Herbert Kemble - Miss Louise Aitken
- J Noel Kilgour - J and N Kilgour
- J Noel Kilgour - WJ Coogan, Esq, OBE
- J Noel Kilgour - ES Rodriguez
- Nancy Kilgour - J Noel Kilgour
- Frederick William Leist - Mrs Huff Johnston
- Frederick William Leist - Mrs CJ Wiley
- Frederick William Leist - Surgeon Lieut Commander Susman, RANR
- William Francis Loonan - Self-portrait
- Harry McDonald - A man of the Western Plains
- Violet M McInnes - Miss Francis de Crespigny
- Violet M McInnes - Miss Sybil Craig
- Lola Mason - Clive Raleigh Evatt, Esq, KC, MLA
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Walter Mohr
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Self-portrait
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Sir John Butters
- Charles Meere - Miss Doris Harrison
- Max Meldrum - Sir David Rivett, FRS
- Max Meldrum - Professor EW Skeats
- Henry W Minton - Self-portrait
- Guy McIntyre Mitchell - Mr Johnston
- Kay Munro - RG Menzies, Esq (former prime minister)
- Arthur J Murch - James Cook
- Arthur J Murch - Frank Lumb
- Arthur J Murch - Mrs AJ Murch
- Roy Opie - Dr John Dale, OBE
- Esther Paterson - Lieut Commander GH Gill, RANVR
- C W Peck - Light Horse officer
- Clif Peir - Gordon Anderson, Esq
- Wilfred Peisley - Madame Le Bras
- RW Phillips - Self-portrait
- M Prowse Carey - 'J'
- James Quinn - Nurse 'Billie' Mitchell
- James Quinn - Ernest Buckmaster
- James Quinn - EM Pearce, Esq
- Mollie Rohr - Diana
- Mollie Rohr - Self-portrait
- Mollie Rohr - Portrait
- J H R Rousel - Miss Margaret Rousel
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Mr Mayne Lynton
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Miss Lew Ton
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Mr Bernard Cronin
- William Rowell - Miss Thelma Champion
- William Rowell - Mrs Marie Pitt
- William Rowell - Col JH Clarebrough
- Naomi Sanguenetti - The dancer
- Roderick Shaw - Frances Shaw
- Reginald Jack Shepherd - Jean
- Albert Victor Simmons - Lilley A Sim, psychic and seeress
- David Sing - Professor Carl Sauer
- Joshua Smith - Sister M Deane
- Stephanie Taylor - Gillespie Douglas
- Stephanie Taylor - Mrs J Wanderly, BA
- Stephanie Taylor - Dr Ruby Davy
- Francis Roy Thompson - Boy with a guitar
- Wallace Thornton - Self-portrait
- Wallace Thornton - Portrait
- Lyall Trindall - The artist's wife
- Hayward Veal - Roderic Quinn, poet
- Douglas Watson - AA Watson, Esq
- Douglas Watson - Self-portrait
- Douglas Watson - Mrs AT Watson
- Percy Watson - Self-portrait
- Charles Wheeler - Self-portrait
- Charles Wheeler - Professor WJ Young
- Eric Wilson - The Honorable James McGirr, Esq MLA (Minister for Lands and Local Government)
- Eric Wilson - Miss E Rankin
- Eric Wilson - Mr Raymond Wilson
- Rita Wilson - Self-portrait
- Rita Wilson - Miss Ena Wood
- Joseph Wolinski - B Frampton, Esq
- Joseph Wolinski - Self-portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Jack O'Connor
- Joseph Wolinski - Desiderius Orban
- C Dudley Wood - Self-portrait
- C Dudley Wood - Miss EM Christensen, MA
- Arnold Zimmerman - Self-portrait