Archibald Prize 1947
Entries: 161 (84 selected)
Exhibition dates: 23 January to 8 March 1948
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
The subject of William Dargie’s winning portrait, Marcus Clark, was not only a prominent businessman but a trustee of the Gallery and therefore one of the judges.
- Alexander Aldridge - James Aldridge
- S Antonini - F Floreani
- Kathleen Barnes - Mr LS Jackson
- O W Bond - Self-portrait
- George Browning - Miss Betty Garland
- Mardi Burrell - Miss Renee Perry
- Charles Bush - Robert Haines
- Jack Carington Smith - Professor AL McAulay
- Norman Carter - Miss RA Kirkcaldie, MBE
- A D Colquhoun - Mavis Jackson
- A D Colquhoun - Dr McClelland, MA, MB, BS
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Miss Jean Whitman
- Jack Curtis - Albert Sloss
- Jack Curtis - Bill Hall
- Joseph Dainer - Rt Hon JB Chifley
- William Dargie - Sir Marcus Clark, Kt, KBE (Winner: Archibald Prize 1947)
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - Miss Frances D Ellis
- Aileen R Dent - Col Wallace Ross
- Harry Edgecombe - Daysi M Brookes
- Lindsay Edward - Self-portrait
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Sir Frederick Jordan, KCMG
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Mrs Charles Prins
- Harold Freedman - Mr Frank Ellis
- Harold Freedman - Self-portrait
- J C Goodhart - Don Bradman
- James William Govett - Judge Gamble, Supreme Court of Victoria
- James William Govett - The Right Rev JD McKie, Bishop of Geelong
- James William Govett - Padmabati Sharmar
- Ambrose Griffin - Miss Ronnie Goodlet
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Self-portrait
- Harley Griffiths - Self-portrait
- Paul Haefliger - Annette
- Paul Haefliger - Jean Bellette
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - E Scorfield, Esq
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - Lance Solomon, Esq
- Weaver Hawkins - John Wiltshire
- Newton Hedstrom - NS Hedstrom, Snr
- Sali Herman - Self-portrait
- Nora Heysen - Hans Heysen
- Irene Gladys Hill - Miss AME Bale
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - John Rogerson, Esq
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mrs Arthur Rogerson
- Molly Johnson - Miss Grace Sitlington
- Molly Johnson - Dr Valerie Chaffer
- Vernon Jones - Miss Isabel McComas
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mischa Burlakov
- J Noel Kilgour - Miss Mitton
- Garrett Kingsley - Duncan Macdougall
- Virgil Lo Schiavo - CE Corlette, MD, ChM, FRACS
- R W McCubbin - Anne Church
- Jeff McCulley - Self-portrait
- Violet M McInnes - Brig EM Dollery, OBE, MC
- Howard Winton Matthews - Peter O'Shaughnessy
- Howard Winton Matthews - Percy Code
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - Eileen Burton, LASA
- Charles Meere - Mrs CS Richards
- Charles Meere - Mrs Donald Mackay
- Percival James Norton - Mrs S Norton
- Frank Payne - Anna Englis
- L Scott Pendlebury - Harold Beck
- RW Phillips - Hope Croll
- William R Plowman - Miss Wilma Bigolky
- Harold Septimus Power - Self-portrait
- J H R Rousel - Hon WJ Bradley, KC, MLC
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Self-portrait
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - CWB Littlejohn, FRCS, OBE, MC
- Roderick Shaw - Fred Haimes
- C S Smith - Mr RW Stone
- Joshua Smith - Dr Hugh Poate, FRCS, FRACS
- Joshua Smith - Professor Harvey Sutton, OBE, MD, DPH, FRACP
- Roland Strasser - Beatrice Tange
- H J Taprell - Miss L Smith
- Graham A Thorley - Sir Thomas Rutherford, KCSI, CIE
- Wallace Thornton - Self-portrait
- Dora Toovey - Dora Birtles
- Lyall Trindall - AK Marsden
- Lyall Trindall - Lady Braddon
- Alice Turnbull - HL Askey, Esq
- Jack Waugh - Henry Edgecombe
- Charles Wheeler - Miss Judith Coles
- Percy I White - LO Bailey, Esq
- Joseph Wolinski - Henry F Halloran
- Joseph Wolinski - Howard Ashton
- Eric Wright - George Patterson