Archibald Prize 1961
Entries: 226 (61 selected)
Exhibition dates: 20 January to 4 March 1962
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
William Pidgeon, who had competed in every prize since 1949, won for the second time.
- William Aylward - Karen
- Alan Baker - Artist's wife
- Esme Bell - Mrs RJ Heffron
- G F Bissietta - Autoritratto
- William Geoffrey Boissevain - Robert Haines
- Shirley Bourne - Meg Padgham
- Shirley Bourne - Eugene Cooper
- Mary Brady - Gregory J Shanahan, BSc, MSc (Agr)
- Charles Bush - Self-portrait and bronze cat
- Donald Cameron - George Colville
- Reg Campbell - Bob Dyer
- Jack Carington Smith - Senator Elect Alderman Dr RJ David Turnbull
- Leonard Henry Carter - Jack Paint
- Judy Cassab - Robert Helpmann
- Kevin Connor - The Honourable Sir Frank Kitto, KBE
- William Dargie - Sir Macfarlane Burnet, OM, FRS, Nobel laureate
- Orlando Dutton - Self-portrait
- Mary Edwell-Burke - Risiva Cavuyawa of Tamavua
- Maximilian Feuerring - Self-portrait
- Bruce Fletcher - David
- Guy Grey-Smith - Helen Grey-Smith
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - EV Adams, town clerk of Sydney
- Newton Hedstrom - CN Penglase
- Sali Herman - Mawalan
- Nora Heysen - James McAuley
- Graeme Inson - JD Story, ISO
- Graeme Inson - Ivy Shore
- Jean Isherwood - W Alan Grainger MDS, FICS, FACD
- Kenneth Jack - Self-portrait
- Justus Jorgensen - Self-portrait
- Louis Kahan - Albert Tucker
- Garrett Kingsley - Self-portrait
- Elsa Krist - Professor JJ Thompson
- Olive Kroening - Paul Mason, MLC, DSC
- Michael R Lyons - Bunny Cannon
- Herbert McClintock - Dame Mary Gilmore
- Vladas Meskenas - Weaver Hawkins
- Lucien Michalski - Self-portrait
- Jon Molvig - Harold Holt
- Jean Nethercote - Ola Cohn, ARCA
- Kathleen O'Connor - Sir Russell Dumas
- Shirley Mary O'Leary - Franco Paisio, poet
- L Scott Pendlebury - Andor Meszaros, sculptor
- William Pidgeon - Kenneth Slessor
- William Pidgeon - Rabbi Dr I Porush (Winner: Archibald Prize 1961)
- Gwen Pratt - The necklet
- Clifton Pugh - Frank Dalby Davison
- Tiiu Reissar - Miss Tomson
- John Thomas Rigby - Self-portrait
- Alex Robertson - Lift driver, Ted Gibson
- Joe Rose - Self-portrait
- Andrew Sibley - Social secretary, CWA, North Queensland
- Joshua Smith - Eli Bannister, musician
- C G Taylor - Summer portrait
- Graham A Thorley - The Mad Ringer, Jim Gibson
- Dora Toovey - Roy Fluke
- Thora Ungar - Peter
- Roland Wakelin - Mrs Roland Wakelin
- Narelle Webster - Bissietta
- Susan Wright - Miss Vera Hrubska
- Reinis Zusters - Self-portrait