Archibald Prize 1940
Entries: 156 works
Exhibition dates: 22 January to 23 February 1941
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit
Max Meldrum won the Archibald Prize for a second year in a row. The Daily Telegraph reported that there was a record number of entries but they were ‘generally dull and uninspiring’.
- Harold Abbott - Dr W Arundel Orchard
- James Muir Auld - Self-portrait
- Alan Baker - Mr Hamilton
- Normand Baker - Self-portrait
- Normand Baker - Stella
- Rex Battarbee - Chief Kamutu
- Margaret Beatty - Miss Lorraine Barnes
- AT Bernaldo - Colonel WW Whittle
- AT Bernaldo - Edwin Rechner, Esq
- Ernest Buckmaster - Self-portrait
- Walter Edmund Burney - Beatrice
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait
- James Cant - Waterside worker
- Jack Carington Smith - Miss Barbara Swift
- Frank R Carter - Dr William Maloney
- Frank R Carter - William Prendergast, MA, LLB
- Frank R Carter - Christopher Coe
- Norman Carter - Captain PG Taylor, EGM, MC
- Norman Carter - Dr William Wood
- Margaret Cilento - Sir Raphael Cilento, KBE
- Margaret Coen - Mr Douglas Stewart
- A D Colquhoun - Douglas I Menzies
- A D Colquhoun - Mrs S Robinson
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Russell Hooper
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Graeme Penington
- Bruce M Cousin - Nan
- William Dargie - Master Paul Warner
- William Dargie - Daryl Lindsay
- Sue Dennett - 'Borzoi' - Igor Schwezoff
- Aileen R Dent - Madam Gregor Wood
- Aileen R Dent - Rev J Noble-MacKenzie
- Aileen R Dent - Professor John Gillies
- William Dobell - Miss Dorothy Helmrich
- Douglas Dundas - Miss Dorothy Thornhill
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Mrs John R Carey
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Self-portrait
- Elsie Elder - Captain John Collins
- Nell Eveston - Miss Mary Punch
- Nell Eveston - Miss Jean Punch
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Mr ACH Edwards
- Marjorie Glyn-Edwards - Self-portrait
- John Barclay Godson - Mr Alfred Hill
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs Henry Murdoch
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs A Watson-Mason
- John Barclay Godson - Mrs Alex Sverjensky
- John Barclay Godson - Madge, daughter of A Watson-Mason Esq
- John Barclay Godson - Selma, daughter of Mrs V Walder
- Helena Nellie Govett - Sir Stanley Argyle
- Gwendolyn Grant - Hon Sir James Blair, KCMG
- Leonard James Green - Mrs Tom Luxton, Jnr
- Thomas J Haberley - Self-portrait
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - H Neville Smith, Esq
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Judge Moffitt
- Sylvia Harris - Mrs J Doren
- Sylvia Harris - Prof JV Duhig, MB, FRACP
- John R Heath - Self-portrait
- John R Heath - Dr RV Hennessy, FRCS (Eng)
- John J Hennessy - Self-portrait
- Malcolm C Hone - Portrait
- Tom Hubble - Miss Hargreave
- Tom Hubble - Douglas M Barrie
- Wyclif E Huston - Dr Max C McAlister, LLB
- Rupert Hutter - HS Elvin, Esq
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Sir John Butters
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mrs C Bede Maxwell
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Dr Cecil Pursor BA, MB, ChM, FRACP
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mrs Bertha Maxwell
- Margaret Gordon Johnson - Self-portrait
- Herbert Kemble - Miss Merle Greenwood
- Herbert Kemble - Frank D Clulow
- Clement Charles Kennedy - Miss Jeanie Rankin
- J Noel Kilgour - Nancy Kilgour
- J Noel Kilgour - Self-portrait
- J Noel Kilgour - Mrs J Kelly
- Frederick William Leist - Dr HN Schlink, MB, ChM, FRACS, FRGS
- Arthur Lindsay - Portrait
- Charles Salis Lloyd - JK Moir, Esq
- Oliver Long - Wolfgang Cardimatis
- Eva Georgina Lucas - Portrait
- Winifred McCubbin - Susan, daughter of the artist
- Herbert W McCulley - Self-portrait
- Tempe Manning - Mr WA Byram Mansell
- Tempe Manning - Miss Bee Metcalfe
- Tempe Manning - Christine Patricia Manning
- Howard Winton Matthews - Alfred Burke
- Howard Winton Matthews - Gerald de Vahl Davis, BA, ARG, BSc
- Maxwell - Geoffrey
- Frank Medworth - Muriel, wife of the artist
- Charles Meere - Freda Robertshaw
- Charles Meere - H Naylor
- Charles Meere - Robert Le Gay Brereton
- Max Meldrum - The Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University
- Max Meldrum - Dr J Forbes Mackenzie (Winner: Archibald Prize 1940)
- Henry W Minton - Portrait
- Nancy Moffat - Mrs Clarence Weber, MLA
- Alan Moore - Self-portrait
- Arthur J Murch - R Windeyer, Esq, KC
- Percival James Norton - E Cochrane-Emerton, Esq
- Roy Opie - Mr Alan Eddy
- Thelma Parr - Zara Brett
- Esther Paterson - Hermon Gill, Esq
- Esther Paterson - Self-portrait
- C W Peck - Paddy, Patsy and Pat
- C W Peck - Self-portrait
- C W Peck - Flying Officer W Geoffrey Campbell
- Clif Peir - Miriam Hyde
- RW Phillips - Portrait
- RW Phillips - Self-portrait
- M Prowse Carey - John
- James Quinn - Percival Serle
- James Quinn - Archbishop Mannix
- Walter Rayment - Gunner Lawrence Rayment
- Ingrid Rayner - Self-portrait
- Eileen M Robertson - Self-portrait
- J H R Rousel - OH Hudson, Esq
- J H R Rousel - Sydney Long, ARE
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Mr Louis Lavater
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Miss Lew Ton
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - George Allen, sculptor
- William Rowell - Judge Foster
- William Rowell - Self-portrait
- William Rowell - Harrison Owen, Esq
- Samuel Rudgley - Self-portrait
- Douglas Russell - The widow
- A W Sampson - Major CM Strachan
- Eric Saunders - Miss Ursula Pollock
- Eric Saunders - G Koshnitsky
- Roderick Shaw - Yvonne Webb
- A J Shepherd - Pioneer
- David Sing - Rev Dr Eris O'Brien
- David Sing - Miss M McDermott
- David Sing - Frere Jean
- Joshua Smith - Mr JA Smith
- Joshua Smith - Mrs Mary Wilson Blackwood
- Syd Sullivan - Self-portrait
- Graham A Thorley - A Kenyon, Esq
- Dora Toovey - Janet Campbell
- Dora Toovey - Jacqueline, daughter of the artist
- Lyall Trindall - Dame Mary Gilmore, DBE
- Lyall Trindall - Tom McClelland, Esq
- Lyall Trindall - FAL Butler, Esq
- Alice Turnbull - Self-portrait
- Hayward Veal - Mr GH Brown
- Percy Watson - Miss Eva Harris
- Charles Wheeler - Canon ES Hughes
- Charles Wheeler - John Wilkins, Esq
- Harold V Whitlock - Lieutenant Jamieson
- Harold V Whitlock - Fae
- Eric Wilson - Mrs J Edmondson
- Rita Wilson - Mrs Edwin Wilson
- Joseph Wolinski - Surgeon-Capt Leonard Darby, CBE, RAN
- Joseph Wolinski - Bernard Sugerman, LLB
- Joseph Wolinski - Self-portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Roderic Quinn
- Joseph Wolinski - Colonel Wilfred Vickers
- Arnold Zimmerman - Jascha Gopinko