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

Archibald Prize 1944

Entries: 185 works
Exhibition dates: 18 January to 3 March 1945
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit

A record number of entries this year was attributed to the enormous publicity surrounding the previous year’s award to William Dobell for a portrait of Joshua Smith. Smith himself won the 1944 prize, for a portrait of politician John Solomon (Sol) Rosevear.

  • Joyce Abbott - Beatrice
  • James Adam - Self-portrait
  • S Antonini - Portrait study
  • Normand Baker - My mother
  • Howard Barron - Self-portrait
  • S F Bond - William Phillips, Esq
  • Daysi M Brookes - Miss G Moncrieff
  • Lina Bryans - Keith Macartney
  • Betty Burch - Self-portrait
  • John Cameron - Senator John Armstrong
  • James Cant - Roy Dalgarno
  • James Cant - Dora Chapman
  • Jack Carington Smith - Hester Clarke
  • Frank R Carter - Hon Justice E McTiernan
  • Norman Carter - Charles Ludowici
  • Norman Carter - Hon DH Drummond
  • Norman Carter - Sir William Dixson
  • Norman Carter - Dr Edgar Booth
  • Max Casey - Sketch portrait: Elliot Wells
  • E D Chong - Doreen
  • Will Clarke - Self-portrait
  • Alannah Coleman - Alister Kershaw (poet)
  • James Coleman - Henry Coleman
  • James Coleman - Michael
  • William Gilbert Collins - Miss VG Carah
  • A D Colquhoun - Miss M Wilson
  • Clara Cornell - Donald Boyd
  • Clara Cornell - Raphael Epstein
  • Clara Cornell - Mrs Piggott
  • Clara Cornell - JF Sheil
  • Bruce M Cousin - Mrs AR Higgs
  • Joseph Dainer - George Edwards
  • Joseph Dainer - Darby Munro
  • William Dargie - Frank Clune
  • Sylvia Davis - Mrs Tony Patricelli
  • EJ De Lough - Here's good health
  • EJ De Lough - Love one another
  • EJ De Lough - My best respects
  • Aileen R Dent - Hon Sir Frederick W Eggleston
  • Aileen R Dent - Rev AJ Stewart
  • E C Draper - Oriental portrait
  • George B Duncan - Alison Rehfisch
  • Douglas Dundas - Dorothy Thornhill
  • David Eager - Self-portrait
  • Will Eager - Pastel (self-portrait)
  • Mary Edwell-Burke - Dame Enid Lyons
  • Mary Edwell-Burke - American officer
  • Elsie Elder - Commodore John Collins, RAN
  • Albert Enes - Howard Ashton
  • Albert Enes - The violinist
  • Albert Enes - The girl with a fan
  • Nell Eveston - James Leonard Eveston
  • Joy Ewart - Andrè Brenac
  • Joy Ewart - Self-portrait
  • J W Ewing - The artist's wife
  • John Flexmore - Alan Marshall (author)
  • John Frawley - Major-Gen AH Ramsay
  • Paul Furniss - Self-portrait
  • Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Myrtle Stroker
  • Hazel Goddard - Self-portrait
  • John Barclay Godson - Roger N Breden
  • L A Gourlay - A mother of our boys
  • L A Gourlay - An Australian soldier's wife
  • Gwendolyn Grant - Mrs Doris Booth
  • Margaret Gray - America in Australia
  • Leonard James Green - Sir James Mitchell, KCMG
  • Leonard James Green - Mr President Dwyer
  • Harley Griffiths - Self-portrait
  • Paul Haefliger - Jean Bellette
  • Lincoln B Hamilton - Madrigal Head
  • Lincoln B Hamilton - Mrs R Farnhill (Bobby)
  • Henry Aloysius Hanke - Senator Gordon Brown
  • E A Harvey - Lyndon Dadswell
  • Weaver Hawkins - My wife
  • Weaver Hawkins - Jack Joyce Grower
  • John R Heath - JL Griffiths, BA
  • Nellie Hennessy - Portrait study
  • Rupert Hutter - Self-portrait
  • Vernon Jones - Air Commodore Cobby, CBE, DSO, DFC, George Medal
  • Vernon Jones - Wing Commander AC Rawlinson, DFC and Bar
  • Vincent Juradowitch - James Meagher
  • Paul F Kaemmerer - Maj-Gen BN Morris, DSO
  • Frank Kane - Self-portrait
  • Roger Kemp - Portrait study
  • Clement Charles Kennedy - Alphons Silbermann
  • Theo M Kielly - Earl G Burns, ATS
  • J Noel Kilgour - Flight-Sgt R Howell
  • J Noel Kilgour - Red dress
  • J Noel Kilgour - Norman Carter
  • Garrett Kingsley - Sen Donald Grant
  • Garrett Kingsley - Jocelyn
  • Charles W Lander - Charles W Lander
  • Bernard Lawson - Portrait study
  • Frederick William Leist - JT Lang, MLA
  • Frederick William Leist - LJ Foster
  • John Leslie - RL Payne
  • William Francis Loonan - Sgt Allan James
  • John Evlyn Lynch - Self-portrait
  • John Evlyn Lynch - My son Geoff
  • Herbert McClintock - Patricia
  • Herbert McClintock - Mr Percy Lindsay
  • Herbert McClintock - William Dobell
  • Herbert W McCulley - Self-portrait
  • Alfred Ernest MacDonald - The pearl brooch
  • Harry McDonald - Bobbie
  • Harry McDonald - Irene Fletcher
  • Alan McInnes - Senior Sister D McInnes, RAAF
  • Violet M McInnes - Miss Sheila Chinnery
  • Miriam MacRae - Old timer
  • Miriam MacRae - The octogenarian
  • Mavis Mallinson - Patricia
  • B Mangan - Self-portrait
  • Tempe Manning - Andrew
  • Tempe Manning - Mary Nelson
  • Tempe Manning - Sgt Shawn O’Leary
  • Tempe Manning - James
  • William Manuel - Miss Olive Hilder
  • E Martin - Leonard Hill
  • E Martin - Mabel
  • Jesse Martin - Self-portrait
  • Jesse Martin - Mrs Sylvia Rapley
  • C H Masley - The gloom chaser
  • Howard Winton Matthews - Hannah Coleman
  • Charles Meere - Mrs Helen Scott
  • H B Minchin - Self-portrait
  • Henry W Minton - Dr Katie Ardill-Brice, OBE
  • Miriam Moxham - Lieut Conor MacGillycuddy
  • Arthur J Murch - Self-portrait
  • Arthur J Murch - Stephen Stack
  • John Palmer - John McShane
  • T R Palmer - The artist on holidays
  • H W Parry - Brigadier H Wrigley, CBE, MC
  • Ruth Pasco - Michael
  • Mollie Dorothea Paxton - Miss Eileen Cramer
  • Frank Payne - Ruth Emery
  • Frank Payne - DL Clinton, RAAF
  • Clif Peir - Mrs Clif Peir
  • L Scott Pendlebury - Nornie Gude (artist)
  • William R Plowman - Mr McDonald
  • William R Plowman - Portrait study
  • William R Plowman - Col Young
  • William R Plowman - Major Rosenbrock
  • M Prowse Carey - Carol Campbell
  • James Quinn - CN Mackenzie
  • Walter Rayment - Portrait of a nurse
  • Mavis Ripper - Lt-Col Northey
  • Beatrice Ritchie - Gwen
  • William Rowell - WL Bowles, Esq
  • Samuel Rudgley - Mrs A Rudgley
  • Samuel Rudgley - Self-portrait
  • Roderick Shaw - James Cant
  • Reginald Jack Shepherd - 'A friend', POW J Jenson
  • Phyllis Shillito - Self-portrait
  • Eric John Smith - Self-portrait
  • Joshua Smith - Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon JS Rosevear, MP (Winner: Archibald Prize 1944)
  • Alice Maud Stone - Lieut-Col J Stanley Smith
  • J N Sutcliffe - R Godding, RAAF
  • Charles Swancott - Stan Cross
  • Charles Swancott - Self-portrait
  • Charles Swancott - Edmond Barclay
  • Stephanie Taylor - Portrait study
  • Stephanie Taylor - D Johnson
  • Francis Roy Thompson - Portrait study
  • Graham A Thorley - Portrait study
  • Dora Toovey - Mrs Alma Davis
  • Lyall Trindall - Mrs PS Garling
  • Lyall Trindall - Self-portrait
  • Lyall Trindall - Mrs Lyall Trindall
  • W E Tristram - Mrs DM Tristram
  • Danila Vassilieff - Mrs L Schumacher
  • Danila Vassilieff - Sir Keith Murdoch
  • J Vatamanoff - Lucy
  • J Vatamanoff - Hilda
  • J Vatamanoff - Self-portrait
  • Hayward Veal - Dr Raoul Cardamatis
  • Roma Ward - Percy Watson
  • Mary Webb - Molly Paxton
  • Mary Webb - Jesse Martin
  • Eric Wilson - The painter's mother
  • Rita Wilson - Col GG Hayman
  • Joseph Wolinski - Roy Hendy Esq, CMG
  • Joseph Wolinski - Dr Moncrieff Barron, OBE
  • L Russell Wood - The black-lace shawl
  • L Russell Wood - The old-fashioned dress
  • L Russell Wood - A young girl