Archibald Prize 1953
Entries: 196 (72 selected)
Exhibition dates: 23 January to 28 February 1954
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
A new system of preferential voting for the Archibald winner was introduced following previous protests. Each Gallery trustee voted for ten works, in order of preference. A state electoral officer collated these votes to establish a shortlist of five, then each trustee again ranked these in order of preference to decide the winner.
- S Antonini - Miss M Shaw
- Alan Baker - Artist's wife
- Stanley Ballard - Portrait of Donald Cameron
- Stanley Ballard - Portrait of His Honour Judge Moore
- Esme Bell - Mrs Keith McKeon
- Reshid Bey - John Casson, Esq
- Mary Brady - The Hon Mr Justice AM Webb
- Ernest Buckmaster - Lieut Gen Sir Horace Robertson
- Norma Bull - Mrs Edward Stevens
- Charles Bush - Allan R Henderson
- Donald Cameron - Portrait of the Reverend AC Karmouche
- Donald Cameron - Portrait of Mr WCG McCracken
- Reg Campbell - Albert Namatjira
- Jack Carington Smith - John Pearce
- Jack Carington Smith - Leighton Irwin, CMG
- Norman Carter - Lt Col FL Coldwell-Smith, MVO, MC
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of CR McKerihan
- Judy Cassab - Portrait of Richard Trent
- Noel Counihan - Portrait of Vance Palmer
- Noel Counihan - Katharine Susannah Prichard
- Ronald William Crawford - Miss Olive Wren
- George Crossley - Dr Robert Kiel
- William Dargie - The Hon Sir Colin Archibald Sinclair, KBE
- Aileen R Dent - Mr Henry Searby, MS, FRCS, FRACS, QHS
- William Dobell - Harry Stevenson
- John Dowie - The Hon Sir John Mellis Napier, KCMG, KtStJ
- Dudley Drew - Mr SS Anderson
- Dudley Drew - The late King O'Malley
- Peter Louis Elliott - R Windeyer, QC
- Sam Fullbrook - Bernard Sahm
- Owen Garde - Sir John Dwyer, Chief Justice of Western Australia
- James William Govett - Professor Chisholm
- Ambrose Griffin - Mrs E Beaurepaire
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Rufus Morris, Esq
- E A Harvey - Portrait of Mrs EA Harvey
- Weaver Hawkins - Helen Simpson
- Ivor Hele - John Horner, Esq
- Ivor Hele - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS (Winner: Archibald Prize 1953)
- Robert Hofmann - Peter Leonard
- Edith L Holmes - Barclay Erskine
- Tom Hubble - Vol Molesworth
- Graeme Inson - Brian Fitzpatrick, Esq
- Graeme Inson - The Hon Sir Raymond Kelly
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Lady Hallstrom
- Vernon Jones - John Breen
- J Noel Kilgour - Miss Lorraine Millard
- Garrett Kingsley - Rear Admiral HA Showers, CBE
- Kurt Klingstedt - Professor Harry Messel
- Kurt Klingstedt - The Hon FH Hawkins, MLA, Minister for Lands
- Tempe Manning - Self-portrait
- Fred Martin - Miss Mena Abdullah
- Max Martin - Archbishop Mannix
- Charles Meere - Carol
- Max Meldrum - Mrs G Weir
- Timothy Messack - Self-portrait
- Graham Moore - CG Crane, Esq
- Arthur J Murch - Douglas Stewart
- L Scott Pendlebury - Miss M Stuart
- Judith M Perrey - Portrait of Ian Cole
- John Peterson - Self-portrait
- William Pidgeon - The late Captain WG Lawrence
- William Pidgeon - Miss Dorothy Lees
- John Thomas Rigby - Mr Jon Molvig
- Albert Rydge - Portrait of Clifford Grant as Giovanni
- Jeffrey Smart - JL Stephen Mansfield, FRIBA
- C S Smith - Gwynneth Stone
- Joshua Smith - Mr AD Aboud
- Graham A Thorley - Adrian Riordan
- Wallace Thornton - Lyndon Dadswell
- Dora Toovey - Miss Jacqueline Jackson
- Clive Wilbow - Self-portrait
- Reinis Zusters - Sir Robert Garran