Archibald Prize 1973
Entries: 186 (53 selected)
Exhibition dates: 19 January to 17 February 1974
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
Janet Dawson became the third female artist to win the prize, with her first Archibald entry, a portrait of her husband, the actor, writer and restaurant critic Michael Boddy.
- Ian Armstrong - Max Charlesworth
- Coralie Barr - Ethel Hayton, journalist
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - Rose Skinner
- Shirley Bourne - Professor AD Hope
- Charles Bush - Barry Jones MLA
- Jo Caddy - Chris Coventry
- Peter James Campbell - George Baldessin
- Reg Campbell - John Kelly
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Orban
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Olsen
- Peter Chapman - Laura
- Kevin Connor - Albert Tucker
- Janet Dawson - Michael Boddy (Winner: Archibald Prize 1973)
- Joan Dent - James Maxwell
- Gundars Eglentals - Lionel Long
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self-portrait
- Helen French-Kennedy - AJ Grassby
- Don Gallagher - Gaye McDermott
- Edna Garran-Brown - Joanne Thew
- Penelope Gilbert - Mr Michael Somare, chief minister of Papua New Guinea
- Allan Hansen - Self-portrait
- Newton Hedstrom - Self-portrait
- John Henshaw - Frank Hinder
- Nora Heysen - Hottie Lahm
- Graeme Inson - Alderman Sir Emmett McDermott as lord mayor of Sydney
- Graeme Inson - BH Travers, OBE, BA (Syd), MA, BLitt (Oxon)
- Jean Isherwood - Roy Fluke
- Louis Kahan - Professor Harry Messel
- Robert Lassau - Ma Craydon o' the Rocks
- Lynette Lee - Sheila Raphael
- Vaike Liibus - Stan de Teliga
- Vaike Liibus - The Hon Sir Percy Spender, KEVO, KBE, Kt StJ, QC
- Lance McNeill - Graham Perkin, editor-in-chief, The Age newspaper, Melbourne
- John V Maudson - John Hannes
- Jocelyn Maughan - Dr Hastings Willis
- Vladas Meskenas - Elwyn Lynn
- Robin Norling - Husband and wipe
- Edwa Owen - Mrs Estelle Wakelin
- L Scott Pendlebury - Max Jost
- James Grainger Phillips - Unk White
- Lesley Pockley - Hugh Paget, OBE, MA (Oxon)
- Ralph Podolski - Mr JW Mcmillan, BSc, BEd, MEngSc, MA, registrar, the New South Wales Institute of Technology
- Clifton Pugh - Playwright David Williamson
- John Thomas Rigby - Lady Cilento (Medical Mother)
- Thea Rutledge - Portrait of Jack Pritchett, past commodore, Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club
- Andrew Sibley - Rodney Hall
- Eric John Smith - Rudy Komon, OBE
- Eric John Smith - Patrick White
- Joshua Smith - Ian F Potts, FRCS
- Sylvia Tiarks - Self-portrait
- Loola Uannw - William Anderson
- Richard Zmija - Self-portrait
- Reinis Zusters - Rolf Harris