title: Lists of Archibald Prize finalists
text: # Lists of Archibald Prize finalists
  
  The page List of Archibald Prize winners provides a summary of Archibald Prize winners. This page provides directions to Lists of finalists of the annual Australian Archibald Prize for portraiture.
  
  ## Lists of finalists
  
  * 1920s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1921 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1922 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1923 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1924 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1925 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1926 finalists
  * 1930s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1938 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1939 finalists
  * 1940s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1946 finalists
  * 1950s
  * 1960s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1960 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1966 finalists
  * 1970s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1973 finalists
  * 1980s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1986 finalists
  * 1990s
     * List of Archibald Prize 1990 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1991/92 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1993 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1994 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1995 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1996 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1997 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1998 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 1999 finalists
  * 2000s
     * List of Archibald Prize 2000 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2001 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2002 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2003 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2004 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2006 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2007 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2008 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2009 finalists
  * 2010s
     * List of Archibald Prize 2010 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2011 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2012 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2013 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2014 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2015 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2017 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2018 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists
  * 2020s
     * List of Archibald Prize 2020 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2021 finalists
     * List of Archibald Prize 2022 finalists
  
  ## Notable Archibald artists
  
  There is a number of artists who have been judged finalists more than twenty times. (Many of these have never won the main prize.) These include:
  
  * Bill Leak
  * Keith Looby
  * Robert Hannaford
  * L. Scott Pendlebury
  * Jenny Sages
  
  ## Notable subjects
  
  Besides the winners, there have been many hundreds of Archibald finalists featuring portraits of Australian celebrities, including musicians, athletes, politicians, film-makers and artists. Some selected ones: (listed Artist – Subject)
  
  ### 1979
  
  * Lance Bressow – Dame Joan Sutherland
  * Josonia Palaitis – The Honourable John Howard, M.P.
  * L. Scott Pendlebury – Anne and Drew Pendlebury (Actress and Musician respectively)
  
  ### 1980
  
  * Charles William Bush – Sir John Kerr
  
  ### 1981
  
  * William Dargie – Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  
  ### 1982
  
  * Rex Dupain – Max's Muse (Max Dupain)
  * Geoff La Gerche – Patrick White
  * Ted Markstein – The Great White Hope in the Land of the Blind (Patrick White)
  
  ### 1983
  
  * Wesley Walters – Molly
  
  ### 1984
  
  * Keith Looby – Max Gillies
  * Wesley Walters – Portrait of Colleen McCullough
  
  ### 1985
  
  * Susan Rothwell – Peter Weir
  
  ### 1986
  
  * Naomi Berns – David Williamson
  * Fred Cress – David Armstrong
  
  ### 1987
  
  * Keith Looby – Manning Clark
  
  ### 1988
  
  * Leeka Gruzdeff – Don Burrows
  * Sidney Nolan – Arthur Boyd at Fitzroy Falls
  
  ### 1989
  
  * Tim Harris – The Doug Anthony All Stars with the Risen Elvis
  * Bernd Heinrich – Thomas Keneally
  * Bill Leak – Sir Donald Bradman
  * Brett Whiteley – Portrait of Francis Bacon
  
  ### 1990
  
  * Glenda Jones – Kaz Cooke
  
  ### 1991/1992
  
  * Vladas Meskenas – Dr Victor Chang
  * Rosemary Valadon – The Long Afternoon – Portrait of Dr Germaine Greer
  