We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

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’.