Archibald Prize 1951
Entries: 195 (92 selected)
Exhibition dates: 26 January to 24 February 1952
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
Ivor Hele won the first of his five Archibald Prizes with a portrait of Laurie Thomas, art critic, gallery director, journalist and editor, which the Gallery bought for the collection.
- Harold Abbott - Dusan Jakovljevic
- Lawrence Alcock - Harry Dearth
- Alan Baker - NH Baker, Esq
- Alan Baker - Charles Chauvel, Esq
- Rex Battarbee - Albert Namatjira
- Jack Bennett - Miss Joan Wilson
- Jack Bennett - Self-portrait
- Reshid Bey - JO Watt, Esq
- Robert A Blake - George Silk, Esq
- Mary Brady - Self-portrait
- Mary Brady - Portrait study
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mrs A McLachlan
- Ernest Buckmaster - Mr HA Pitt
- Charles Bush - Phyl Waterhouse
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait
- Helen Cameron - Roland Oliver Elliott, Sheriff of NSW
- Jack Carington Smith - Lucien Dechaineux
- Leonard Henry Carter - Dennis Dwyer
- Norman Carter - Mr Lloyd Rees
- Margaret Cilento - Lady Cilento
- Dorothy Clemens - Jim MacDougall
- William Gilbert Collins - Dennis Dyer
- A D Colquhoun - Portrait of a young artist
- William Dargie - Dr HRG Poate, MVO
- William Dargie - His Excellency The Governor of NSW, Lieut-Gen Sir John Northcott, KCMG, CB, MVO, KStJ
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - Archer Russell
- Raymond de Cusack - The late Rt Hon JB Chifley
- Aileen R Dent - Lieut Col HE Jones, OBE
- Aileen R Dent - Hon Sir James Kennedy
- William Dobell - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones
- William Dobell - Lady Lloyd Jones
- Douglas Dundas - Self-portrait
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Charles Cousens, Esq
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Miss Pamela Kendall
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self-portrait
- Philip Frankel - Nancy Weir
- Winston Fry - Wife of the artist
- Owen Garde - Mr CP Smith
- Owen Garde - Mr HV Marr
- Harold Greenhill - Mrs Dudley Barling
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - The Hon Mr Justice TW Smith
- Lincoln B Hamilton - Miss Anderson
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - John Dunne, Esq
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - HW Grace, Esq
- David Harrison - RT Tetley, Esq
- Newton Hedstrom - Malcolm Carbins, Esq
- Ivor Hele - Laurie Thomas (Winner: Archibald Prize 1951)
- Ivor Hele - EW Hayward, Esq
- Nora Heysen - Norman MG Gratton, Esq
- Nora Heysen - Camille C Gheysens
- Robert Hofmann - Portrait of a ship builder (Dr Marcel Clynes)
- Robert Hofmann - Herbert P Dickins
- Graeme Inson - Max Meldrum
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Mrs Crawford Vaughan
- Reginald Jerrold-Nathan - Self-portrait
- Vernon Jones - Air Vice Marshal FRW Scherger, CBE, DSO, AFC
- Ena Joyce - Miss Treania Smith
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mr SC Bootes
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mr JR Glasheen, Snr
- Louis Kahan - George Bell
- Antonis Karafyllakis - Miss A Mandalis
- J Noel Kilgour - The painter's wife
- Garrett Kingsley - Mrs Vincent Fairfax
- Garrett Kingsley - Dr Monte Gildea
- Harold Lane - Capt OA Godwin
- Harold Lane - Mrs Marcel Dekyvere
- Charles Lonergaran - News of the wild, EJ Hallstrom, Esq
- Charles Lonergaran - Self-portrait
- Herbert McClintock - Portrait of an Australian artist
- Pamela MacFarlane - Professor WV MacFarlane
- G M McHolme - Self-portrait
- Violet M McInnes - Glenda Raymond
- Charles Meere - Cyril Hudson
- Charles Meere - Hon Colin Sinclair, BA, LLB
- Graham Moore - Gordon A Speary
- Arthur J Murch - GK Townshend
- Clif Peir - Mrs Marjorie Gray
- L Scott Pendlebury - Self-portrait
- William Pidgeon - Arthur Mailey
- William Pidgeon - Mrs WE Pidgeon
- Walter Rayment - Self-portrait
- John Thomas Nightingale Rowell - Arnold Shore
- Albert Rydge - WA Moir, Esq
- Jim Smith - Max Selig, Esq
- Joshua Smith - HJ Barncastle, Esq
- Joshua Smith - Self-portrait
- C G Taylor - John Alfred
- Graham A Thorley - Self-portrait
- Dora Toovey - Professor Bland, MP
- William Torrance - Self-portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Mr Justice Sugerman
- Reinis Zusters - Mr John Price Strange