Winner: Archibald Prize 1929
John Longstaff The Hon WA Holman, KC
oil on canvas
76.5 x 64 cm
This portrait by John Longstaff of politician and barrister William Arthur Holman (1871-1934) is now in the collection of Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria. At the time, the Bulletin magazine wrote that the painting was 'about as much like Holman as a strawberry ice-cream soda’.