Archibald Prize 1972
Entries: 188 (53 selected)
Exhibition dates: 20 January to 18 February 1973
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
Clifton Pugh won for the second year in a row, bringing his Archibald Prize award tally to three. (He’d won for the first time in 1965.)
- Brian Agnew - Self-portrait
- Ian Armstrong - William Frater
- William Aylward - Graham Osborn
- Alan Baker - John L Sever
- Shirley Bourne - Professor Geoffrey Blainey
- Lance Bressow - Mr Don Burrows, MBE
- Charles Bush - EA Douglas Watson
- Charles Bush - R Seddon
- Donald Cameron - John Rowell
- Peter James Campbell - Terry Whelan: Olsonian pots
- Reg Campbell - Sir Garfield Barwick, KCMG
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Professor Bruce Williams
- Kevin Connor - Portrait of Ray Crooke I
- Kevin Connor - Portrait of Ray Crooke II
- Joan Dent - Jan Gold
- Ruth Faerber - Sir Bernard Heinze
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self-portrait
- Paul Fitzgerald - Sir Henry Bolte, KCMG
- Edna Garran-Brown - Raymond Farly Thew
- Noni Guthrie - Rosemary Wasser
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - His Honour Judge AT Conybeare, QC
- Newton Hedstrom - John Eldershaw, Esq
- Newton Hedstrom - Marjory Penglase
- Sali Herman - John Venour Dulhunty
- Irene Gladys Hill - Mr Gordon McInnes
- Frank Hinder - Margel Hinder
- John Howley - Portrait of Georges Mora
- Graeme Inson - Tony Morphett
- Graeme Inson - Guthrie Wilson, MC
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Self-portrait
- Michael Kmit - Michael Bartley
- Vaike Liibus - The Hon EA Willis, MLA
- Herbert McClintock - Max Ebert
- Jocelyn Maughan - Portrait of Professor EG Waterhouse
- Betty C Morgan - Robert M de Lany
- Valda Morris - Self-portrait
- Marjory Penglase - Jeffrey Hedstrom
- W H Peperkamp - Portrait of RJW Selleck
- William Pidgeon - Venita
- Lesley Pockley - The Honourable Sir Percy Spender
- John Proudfoot - Dr CD Throsby
- Clifton Pugh - The Hon EG Whitlam (Winner: Archibald Prize 1972)
- David Rae - Sue Walston
- David Rae - DC Green
- Aileen Rogers - Portrait of GM
- Eric John Smith - Frank Watters
- Eric John Smith - Studio self-portrait
- Joshua Smith - Brigadier RQ Macarthur-Stanham of Camden Park, Menangle
- Gunther Stopa - Sir Mark Oliphant
- C G Taylor - Greg Hyde
- Phyllis Paulina Waterhouse - Charles Bush and Douglas Watson
- Guido Zuliani - Portrait of Mr JT Lang
- Reinis Zusters - Portrait of Bill Pidgeon