Archibald Prize 1955
Entries: 182 (88 selected)
Exhibition dates: 21 January to 19 February 1956
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
Ivor Hele won the Archibald for the fourth time – his third win a row – for his portrait of Robert Campbell, director of the National Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Mary Abbott - Mrs WJ Bentley
- S Antonini - Self-portrait
- Alan Baker - Man in the green hat
- Alan Baker - Marjorie M Baker
- Reshid Bey - Allan Lowe
- Mary Brady - FM Osborne, Esq, MP
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait at 35
- Donald Cameron - Lt Gen Smart
- Reg Campbell - Capt PG Claridge
- Reg Campbell - The Hon Sir John Mellis Napier, KCMG, LLB, Kt St J
- Jack Carington Smith - WWV Briggs, Esq, MBE, MA, DipEd
- Jack Carington Smith - Sir Douglas Mawson
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Wallace Thornton
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Chips Rafferty
- William Gilbert Collins - My sister
- A D Colquhoun - The Right Hon Sir Owen Dixon, GCMG, QC
- A D Colquhoun - The Most Rev James Duhig, DD, CMG, LLD, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss Dorothy Ross, MSc, BA
- Alice de Burgh - Mr Thomas de Burgh, BE, MICE, LGE
- Aileen R Dent - The Hon RK Whately, MA, MLA
- Aileen R Dent - Sir Frederick Hay of Alderston, Bart
- Charles Doutney - Yvonne
- Dudley Drew - Lt Gen Sir Horace Robertson, KBE, DSO
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Self-portrait with a shell
- Bruce Fletcher - Brigadier G Langley, DSO, ED, BA
- Herbert Flugelman - Eric Dunbar, Esq
- Owen Garde - Mr Arthur Jacoby
- Owen Garde - Mr John Dunphy
- Stan Glinski - JG Watson, BA, MB, BS, BEc
- John Barclay Godson - John Godson, Junr
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Sir Eugene Goossens
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - ER Knox, Esq
- Ronald Hardacre - Self-portrait
- Newton Hedstrom - John Eldershaw, Esq
- Ivor Hele - Robert Campbell (Winner: Archibald Prize 1955)
- Ivor Hele - Senator The Hon AM McMullin
- Sali Herman - Old woman
- Robert Hofmann - Portrait of Frederick T Macartney
- Tom Hubble - Professor McMahon
- Graeme Inson - Mrs John Bovill
- Graeme Inson - Sir Richard Boyer
- A Jakobson - Gwenda Saunders
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Miss Grace Cardale
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Dr Mervyn Archdall
- Vernon Jones - Wallace H Smith, Esq
- Vincent Juradowitch - Dr M Elliott-Smith
- Georgina Kalmar - Robert Boylan
- J Noel Kilgour - Matron Shaw, OBE
- Garrett Kingsley - Mrs CT Lorenz
- Michael Kmit - Dancer, Giovanna Andree Navarre
- Michael Kmit - Wallace Thornton
- Anthony la Spina - Alfred F Hill, OBE
- Valerie Lazarus - Matron EM Shaw, OBE
- Valerie Lazarus - Miss P Mander-Jones
- Lucy Lee - Sir Giles Chippindall, CBE
- Alex D Lewis - The undertaker
- Harry McDonald - Dudley Kelly
- Mary Elizabeth McLeish - Mrs LR Buxton
- Mary Elizabeth McLeish - Paul McLeish, Esq
- Tempe Manning - Leonard Long
- Fred Martin - Mrs Phyllis Creevey
- Charles Meere - Keren Longworth
- Timothy Messack - Self-portrait
- Max Middleton - Dr John Cade
- Max Middleton - The Rev Dr Alan Watson
- Leonard Victor Mitchell - Self-portrait
- Jon Molvig - Paul Beadle
- Graham Moore - Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, ARRC, AANS
- Graham Moore - Thomas Sewell
- Arthur J Murch - Mrs H Brentnall
- Arthur J Murch - Neville Fortescue
- Clif Peir - Madame Gertrud Bodenwieser
- William Pidgeon - Miss Whiteley
- John Thomas Rigby - Portrait of a girl
- Barbara Robertson - Bronte
- William Salmon - CR Jury
- Joshua Smith - Adolph Basser
- Joshua Smith - Joshua Smith
- C G Taylor - TJ Santry
- Graham A Thorley - Stirling Parker, Esq
- Wallace Thornton - Michael Kmit
- Dora Toovey - Lloyd Rees
- Lyall Trindall - The artist's wife
- Mary Troy - Dora MacMahon, MB, BSc
- Charles Wheeler - Edna Rasmussen
- Clive Wilbow - Mrs Iris Wilbow
- Clive Wilbow - Self-portrait
- Mavis Leslie Wilson - Sir William Angliss - at work