Archibald Prize 1948
Entries: 129 (81 selected)
Exhibition dates: 22 January to 7 March 1949
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
William Dobell won both the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize in the same year – the first artist to do so. His winning portrait of artist Margaret Olley was bought by the Gallery. The exhibition broke opening-day records with around 5000 people visiting.
- Tom Alban - Melbourne Ward, Esq, FRZS, FZS
- Tom Alban - Captain Kasakoff
- S Antonini - Self-portrait
- S Antonini - Miss Agnew
- Alan Baker - Artist's wife
- Normand Baker - Self-portrait
- Howard Barron - 'Trudy of England' Mrs GV Wikner
- Robert A Blake - Maestro Franco Ghione
- Mary Brady - Artist's brother
- Mary Brady - Miss Florence Goldman
- Ernest Buckmaster - Dr HV Mattingley, DDSc, BDSc (Melb Univ), MACD
- Ernest Buckmaster - Harold Blair
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait
- Mary Caldersmith - Self-portrait
- Jack Carington Smith - The Hon Sir John Morris, Kt, MA, LLD, Chief Justice of Tasmania
- Harold Chester - The Very Rev John Flynn, OBE, DD
- A D Colquhoun - Amalie S Colquhoun
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Flight Lieut James Bruce Birchfield, No 3 Squadron, RAAF
- James Cook - Douglas Dundas, Esq
- William Dargie - Sir Samuel Hordern, KBE
- William Dargie - Lt-Col CW Anderson, VC, MC
- William Dargie - Miss Beatrice Tange
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - Lt-Colonel JM Prentice
- Aileen R Dent - Air Vice Marshal Victor Hurley, CB, CMG, KHS, VD
- William Dobell - Margaret Olley (Winner: Archibald Prize 1948)
- Keith McKay Edmunds - Dr Wilfred Giblin, FRCS, of Hobart, Tasmania
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Constance Robertson
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Self-portrait
- Frances D Ellis - George Valder, Esq
- Joy Ewart - Miss Dorothy I Knox, MA
- Winston Fry - The artist's sons
- Edna Garran-Brown - Self-portrait
- Anson Gilchrist - Dr Wheatley
- James William Govett - Beth Thwaites (Mrs Elizabeth McInnes)
- James William Govett - Madame Hanson-Dyer
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Self-portrait
- Harley Griffiths (junior) - Portrait of my father
- Clive Guthrie - Miss Bessie J Mitchell
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - His Honour Judge Perdriau
- E A Harvey - Portrait of Mrs Taussig
- John R Heath - Rudolph Himmer, Esq
- Newton Hedstrom - Portrait study
- Sali Herman - Wallace Thornton
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mr Roland Foster FGSM (London)
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mr P Le Couteur, headmaster of Newington College, Stanmore, Sydney, NSW
- Justus Jorgensen - JH Buesst, Esq
- Justus Jorgensen - JH Edgar, Esq
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mrs Rich
- Herbert Kemble - Self-portrait
- J Noel Kilgour - Mrs Gladys Rodd
- J Noel Kilgour - Lyndon Dadswell
- Garrett Kingsley - Portrait of a mother
- Charles McKervey - David Saxby, Esq
- Tempe Manning - Gwen Meredith (Mrs Ainsworth Harrison), BA
- Alfreda Marcovitch - MK Doherty
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - James Phillips
- Amy Constance Morton - Portrait of Mrs Frank Mulhulland
- Hilda Rix Nicholas - Howard Ashton, Esq
- George Olszanski - AP Oxley, the grandson of Mr P Bushel
- George Olszanski - Mrs Lesley Brash
- L Scott Pendlebury - SB Robertson, Esq
- Judith M Perrey - Dr Joseph Patrick Fogarty
- William Pidgeon - FJ Broadhurst
- Eric John Smith - Mr Harold Peck
- Eric John Smith - Mr Alan Warren
- Jim Smith - EA Harvey
- Joshua Smith - The late matron Elizabeth Hunter, MBE, at the request of the doctors of the Waverley War Memorial Hospital
- Joshua Smith - Dame Mary Gilmore
- Audrey C Snell - Mr Peter French
- Roland Strasser - Mrs Eric Pratten
- Roland Strasser - Mrs Justice ED Roper
- Kenneth D Thomson - Portrait study
- Graham A Thorley - William (Jock) Frater
- Harold L Thornton - Roy Rene (Mo)
- Wallace Thornton - Lyndon Dadswell
- Dora Toovey - Hugh Laming
- Lyall Trindall - EJ Hallstrom, FRZS
- Mary Troy - Most Rev JD Simonds, DD, PhD, coadjutor, Archbishop of Melbourne
- Maria Teresa Vigano - Portrait study
- Joseph Wolinski - Self-portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Mr John Goulston