List of winners
edit† Voting system changed from a single vote per game to 3-2-1 voting in 1930, and then to 5-4-3-2-1 voting in 1985
‡ In 1987, Derek Kickett (‹The template WAFL Cla is being considered for deletion.› Claremont) polled 46 votes, but was ineligible to win due to suspension.[1]
Year – Artist – Title
- 1921: W B McInnes – H. Desbrowe Annear
- 1922: W B McInnes – Professor Harrison Moore
- 1923: W B McInnes – Portrait of a Lady
- 1924: W B McInnes – Portrait of Miss Collins
- 1925: John Longstaff – Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch
- 1926: W B McInnes – Silk and Lace
- 1927: George W. Lambert – Mrs Annie Murdoch
Mrs Annie Murdoch by George Washington Lambert won the 1927 Archibald Prize - 1928: John Longstaff – Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper
John Longstaff's Dr Alexander Leeper won the 1928 Archibald Prize - 1929: John Longstaff – W A Holman, KC
- 1930: W B McInnes – Drum-Major Harry McClelland
- 1931: John Longstaff – Sir John Sulman
- 1932: Ernest Buckmaster – Sir William Irvine
- 1933: Charles Wheeler – Ambrose Pratt
- 1934: Henry Hanke – Self Portrait
- 1935: John Longstaff – A B ('Banjo') Paterson
- 1936: W B McInnes – Dr. Julian Smith
- 1937: Normand Baker – Self Portrait
- 1938: Nora Heysen – Mme Elink Schuurman
- 1939: Max Meldrum – The Hon G J Bell, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- 1940: Max Meldrum – Dr J Forbes McKenzie
- 1941: William Dargie – Sir James Elder, KBE Image
- 1942: William Dargie – Corporal Jim Gordon, VC Image
- 1943: William Dobell – Joshua Smith Image
- 1944: Joshua Smith – Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- 1945: William Dargie – Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBE, DSO, MC, ED
Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED by William Dargie won the 1945 Archibald Prize - 1946: William Dargie – L C Robson, MC, MA Image
- 1947: William Dargie – Sir Marcus Clark, KBE Image
- 1948: William Dobell – Margaret Olley
- 1949: Arthur Murch – Bonar Dunlop
- 1950: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan Image
- 1951: Ivor Hele – Laurie Thomas
- 1952: William Dargie – Mr Essington Lewis, CH Image
- 1953: Ivor Hele – Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
- 1954: Ivor Hele – Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP
- 1955: Ivor Hele – Robert Campbell Esq
- 1956: William Dargie – Mr Albert Namatjira
- 1957: Ivor Hele – Self Portrait
- 1958: William Edwin Pidgeon – Mr Ray Walker Image
- 1959: William Dobell – Dr Edward MacMahon
- 1960: Judy Cassab – Stanislaus Rapotec
- 1961: William Edwin Pidgeon – Rabbi Dr I Porush Image
- 1962: Louis Kahan – Patrick White Image
- 1963: Jack Carington Smith – Professor James McAuley
- 1964: No Award
- 1965: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
- 1966: Jon Molvig – Charles Blackman
- 1967: Judy Cassab – Margo Lewers
- 1968: William Edwin Pidgeon – Lloyd Rees Image
- 1969: Ray Crooke – George Johnston
- 1970: Eric Smith – Gruzman – Architect
- 1971: Clifton Pugh – Sir John McEwen
- 1972: Clifton Pugh – The Hon E G Whitlam File:Gough Whitlam by Clifton Pugh 1972.png Clifton Pugh's The Hon E G Whitlam won the 1972 Prize.
- 1973: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy
- 1974: Sam Fullbrook – Jockey Norman Stephens
- 1975: Kevin Connor – The Hon Sir Frank Kitto, KBE
- 1976: Brett Whiteley – Self Portrait in the Studio Image
- 1977: Kevin Connor – Robert Klippel
- 1978: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing Image
- 1979: Wes Walters – Portrait of Phillip Adams
- 1980: No award
- 1981: Eric Smith – Rudy Komon
- 1982: Eric Smith – Peter Sculthorpe
- 1983: Nigel Thomson – Chandler Coventry
- 1984: Keith Looby – Max Gillies
- 1985: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman
- 1986: Davida Allen – Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
- 1987: William Robinson – Equestrian Self Portrait
- 1988: Fred Cress – John Beard
- 1989: Bryan Westwood – Portrait of Elwyn Lynn
- 1990: Geoffrey Proud – Dorothy Hewett
- 1991/92: Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister (Paul Keating) Image
- 1992/93: Garry Shead – Tom Thompson
- 1993/94: Francis Giacco – Homage to John Reichard
- 1995: William Robinson – Self Portrait with Stunned Mullet
- 1996: Wendy Sharpe – Self Portrait – as Diana of Erskineville Image
- 1997: Nigel Thomson – Barbara Blackman
- 1998: Lewis Miller – Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3
- 1999: Euan MacLeod – Self portrait/head like a hole Image
- 2000: Adam Cullen – Portrait of David Wenham Image
- 2001: Nicholas Harding – John Bell as King Lear Announcement and image
- 2002: Cherry Hood – Simon Tedeschi Unplugged Image
- 2003: Geoffrey Dyer – a portrait of Richard Flanagan. Image
- 2004: Craig Ruddy – David Gulpilil, two worlds (court challenge dismissed) Image
- 2005: John Olsen – Self portrait Janus Faced Image
- 2006: Marcus Wills – The Paul Juraszek Monolith Image
- 2007: John Beard – Portrait of Janet Laurence Image
- 2008: Del Kathryn Barton – You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella Image
- 2009: Guy Maestri – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
- 2010: Sam Leach – Tim Minchin (Announcement)
- 2011: Ben Quilty – Margaret Olley[2] (Image)
- 2012: Tim Storrier – The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch) (Image)
- 2013: Del Kathryn Barton – hugo (Portrait of Hugo Weaving)[3]
- 2014: Fiona Lowry – Penelope Seidler (Image)
- 2015: Nigel Milsom – Charles Waterstreet (Image)
- 2016: Louise Hearman – Barry (Portrait of Barry Humphries) (image)
- ^ "North's Indigenous pride". North Melbourne Football Club. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^ "And the winner of the Archibald Prize is ..." The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ "Del Kathryn Barton wins second Archibald" by Michaela Boland, The Australian, 22 March 2013