Archibald Prize 1959
Entries: 218 (64 selected)
Exhibition dates: 17 January to 28 February 1960
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
In response to criticism about the relatively small number of pictures selected for the exhibition, the Gallery noted a recent tendency for artists to enter large canvases, thus reducing the number of paintings able to be hung.
- Brian Agnew - Self-portrait
- Alan Baker - Self-portrait
- Shirley Bourne - Roland Wakelin
- Shirley Bourne - Peter Monahan
- Mary Brady - Mrs Frank Brady
- Rex Bramleigh - WG Cook
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait at 39
- Donald Cameron - The Rev C Lavender
- Donald Cameron - Dr D Smith
- Reg Campbell - Brooke Moore
- Jack Carington Smith - Sir Alexander Fitzgerald
- Judy Cassab - Miss Elizabeth Skillen, MBE
- Noel Counihan - Sir Mark Oliphant KBE, FRS
- William Dargie - Will Ashton, OBE, HROI
- William Dargie - Sir Lionel Lindsay
- William Dobell - Dr Edward MacMahon (Winner: Archibald Prize 1959)
- William Dobell - Sir Leon Trout
- Dudley Drew - Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes
- Clyve Elliott - Mrs IM Elliott
- Thomas Gleghorn - Patrick White
- Leonard James Green - Mrs Redmond FM Green
- Nornie Gude - Scott Pendlebury
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Allan Hansen
- Newton Hedstrom - Mrs WV Abraham
- Sali Herman - Russell Drysdale
- Harold Stafford Huntley - Miss Wilga Stokes
- Graeme Inson - Ivy Shore
- Kenneth Jack - Self-portrait
- Louis Kahan - Professor Walter Murdoch
- Georgina Kalmar - Professor H Arndt
- Garrett Kingsley - Self-portrait
- Donald Laycock - William Dye
- Valerie Lazarus - Mrs Albert Oakley
- Enid Mackellar - Robert Mackay
- Alan Martin - John McClelland
- Vladas Meskenas - Maximilian Feuerring
- Max Middleton - Dr PE Jeffer
- Jon Molvig - Russell Cuppaidge, Esq
- Graham Moore - The Hon RJ Gray
- Arthur J Murch - Self-portrait
- Carlien Parker - Mr Leslie Walford
- Carlien Parker - Miss Carlie Eagan
- Clif Peir - FLS Bell
- L Scott Pendlebury - Nornie Gude
- William Pidgeon - HB Newman, Esq
- William Pidgeon - Sir Edward Hallstrom
- Clifton Pugh - Geoffrey Dutton, Esq
- Clifton Pugh - David Armstrong, BA, BPhil
- John Thomas Rigby - Jon Molvig
- John Thomas Rigby - Beryl
- John Santry - Mrs Bailey
- Colvin Smith - Self-portrait
- Joshua Smith - CO Healey, OBE, TD, MA (Oxon)
- Joshua Smith - Ralph Basden, MED, BFC, ASTC
- C G Taylor - Self-portrait
- Graham A Thorley - Nevil Shute
- Dora Toovey - Dora Toovey
- Thora Ungar - W Ungar
- Thora Ungar - Margaret Kelly
- Phyllis Paulina Waterhouse - Self-portrait
- Douglas Watson - AA Watson
- James Wilmot - Mrs KY Leung
- Susan Wright - Girl with yellow flowers
- Reinis Zusters - Tiger Lil (Mrs L Bullen)