List of Archibald Prize 1938 finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 1938 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and Title. As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.
| Artist | Title | Subject | Notes |
| Harold Abbott | Self-portrait | ||
| A. F. Andrews | Self-portrait | ||
| A. F. Andrews | The Artist's Father | ||
| John Aston | L. H. Witts, Esq. | ||
| James Muir Auld | Lady in Black | ||
| James Muir Auld | F. Tregear, Esq. | ||
| Alan Baker | Miss Videy Ross | ||
| Alan Baker | Self-portrait | ||
| Normand Baker | Alan D. Baker, Esq. | ||
| Normand Baker | Self-portrait | ||
| A. M. E. Bale | Miss E. M. Lander | ||
| Rex Battarbee | Albert Namatjira | ||
| Ronald Broadley | Self-portrait | ||
| Norman Carter | A. Enes, Esq. | ||
| Norman Carter | Hans Heysen | ||
| Myra Cocks | Portrait of a Lady | ||
| William Gilbert Collins | Self-portrait | ||
| A. D. Colquhoun | Miss Janet Maloney | ||
| A. D. Colquhoun | Miss Olga Hausegger | ||
| A. D. Colquhoun | Miss Janet McEwan | ||
| A. D. Colquhoun | |||
| Thomas Dean | Self-portrait | ||
| Aileen R. Dent | Miss Joyce Raymond | ||
| Aileen R. Dent | Rev. F. E. Oxer | ||
| Claude S. Diston | Lt. Col. J. N. Coryn Shaw | ||
| Douglas Dundas | Alfred Cook, Esq. | ||
| Mary Edwell-Burke | B. J. Waterhouse, Esq., F.R.I.B.A. | ||
| Mary Edwell-Burke | Self-portrait | ||
| Owen Garde | Self-portrait | ||
| John Barclay Godson | Artist and wife | - | |
| Helena Nellie Govett | Portrait | ||
| J. H. Graham | Joshua Smith | ||
| Vaughan Murray Griffin | Mrs Murray Griffin | ||
| A. F. Hancox | Self-portrait | ||
| Henry Aloysius Hanke | Percy Lindsay, Esq. | ||
| Henry Aloysius Hanke | Miss Sylvia Davis | ||
| John R. Heath | Dr W. A. Morrison, LDS., R.C.S. | ||
| Edward Heffernan | Diane in Red | ||
| John J. Hennessy | Self-portrait | ||
| Nora Heysen | Mme Elink Schuurman | ||
| Nora Heysen | The Hon. John Lane Mullins | ||
| Leon Hogan | Miss M. Parsons | ||
| Ethel Holmes | Portrait of a lady | ||
| Tom Hubble | Mrs Francis V. Molyneaux | ||
| Tom Hubble | Frederick E. Baume, Esq. | ||
| J. C. Hutchings | Self-portrait | ||
| Rupert Hutter | Self-portrait | ||
| Reginald Jerrold-Nathan | Miss Camilla Wedgewood | ||
| Reginald Jerrold-Nathan | Self-portrait | ||
| Reginald Jerrold-Nathan | Dr Cecil Purser | ||
| Margaret Gordon Johnson | Mrs Grabham | ||
| Bertha Katsch | Gipsies | ||
| Herbert Kemble | Louise Allen | ||
| Herbert Kemble | Dante Arrie | ||
| Herbert Kemble | Raymond Sinnot, Esq. | ||
| Herbert Kemble | Geoffrey Cumine | ||
| Clement Charles Kennedy | Clement Kennedy | ||
| Clement Charles Kennedy | Thea Rowe | ||
| Clement Charles Kennedy | Meg. | ||
| Garrett Kingsley | Murilla | ||
| Garrett Kingsley | Norma | ||
| Frederick William Leist | C. Pearl, Esq. | ||
| Frederick William Leist | Stephanie Day | ||
| Frederick William Leist | Mrs Charles, MA | ||
| Herbert W McCulley | Self-portrait | ||
| Alfred Ernest MacDonald | W. C. Milne, Esq. | ||
| Violet M. McInnes | Miss Joan Mita | ||
| W. B. McInnes | Sir Robert Wade | ||
| W. B. McInnes | Miss Susan Williams | ||
| W. B. McInnes | Gen Sir Harry Chauvel | ||
| Alex McMurtrie | Dignity and impudence | ||
| Langton Madden | Self-portrait | ||
| Tempe Manning | Peter Lawrence, Esq. | ||
| Max Meldrum | Self-portrait | ||
| Max Meldrum | Prof. W. Agar, F.R.S. | ||
| Miriam Moxham | Henry B. Rain, Esq. | ||
| Miriam Moxham | Miss Myra Cocks & Elaine | ||
| G. Needham | Lionel Shave, Esq. | ||
| A. E. Newbury | W. J. Penfold, M.B., C.M., B.Hy. | ||
| Eric Nilan | D. G. M. Jackson, Esq., MA | ||
| Eric Nilan | D. Nelson, Esq. | ||
| Justin O'Brien | Miss Dorothy Johnston | ||
| Roy Opie | Mr James Opie | ||
| Roy Opie | L. Reynolds, Esq. | ||
| T. R. Palmer | Self-portrait | ||
| Esther Paterson | Miss Betty Paterson | ||
| C. W. Peck | Mrs Drinkwater | ||
| C. W. Peck | One of the Smith family | ||
| Clif Peir | Miss Kathleen Maxwell | ||
| Clif Peir | Miss Ann | ||
| James Quinn | Rt. Hon. R. G. Casey | ||
| Joan E. Reid | Portrait of a Boy | ||
| Stuart Reid | A. R. J. Watt, Esq., K.C. | ||
| C. Darcy Rendalls | Portrait of a man | ||
| Eileen M. Robertson | My Sister | ||
| Mollie Rohr | The Maid | ||
| Mollie Rohr | Miniature | ||
| Mollie Rohr | Portrait of a Man | ||
| Mollie Rohr | Self-portrait | ||
| Mollie Rohr | The final likeness | ||
| J. H. R. Rousel | Rt. Hon. Sir Earle Page, K.C.M.G. | ||
| J. H. R. Rousel | Thos. Porter, Esq. | ||
| John Thomas Nightingale Rowell | Murray Griffin, Esq. | ||
| William Rowell | Arltingah | ||
| William Rowell | Bernard O'Dowd, Esq. | ||
| William Rowell | Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies | ||
| Eric Saunders | Lewis Gooresky | ||
| Eric Saunders | Duncan MacDougall | ||
| Eric Saunders | Daphne Winslow | ||
| Reginald Jack Shepherd | Judith Ann | ||
| Reginald Jack Shepherd | Ald. Mrs Fowler | ||
| Albert Victor Simmons | Mrs Thomas | ||
| David Sing | Mrs E. Thomasson | ||
| David Sing | Miss Sanchia Thomasson | ||
| David Sing | Mr W. Magee | ||
| Joshua Smith | Mrs Louisa Smith | ||
| Joshua Smith | John Graham, Esq. | ||
| Joshua Smith | Miss Dymphna Cusack | ||
| W. Sprenger | Self-portrait | ||
| E. Steitz | The hunter | ||
| M. Summers | Self-portrait | ||
| Beulah Symes Leicester | Dr Charles Fenner | ||
| Stephanie Taylor | Mrs Alice Thomas | ||
| Lesbia Thorpe | Miss Rose Broit | ||
| Lesbia Thorpe | Mrs Havelock Southwick | ||
| Frederick Lyttelton Tregear | Miss Badgery | ||
| Lyall Trindall | Dr B. T. Edye | ||
| Lyall Trindall | Rubery Bennett, Esq. | ||
| Lyall Trindall | The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Ald. N. Nock | ||
| Charles Wheeler | Mrs F. W. Dennett | ||
| Charles Wheeler | Ernest Joske, Esq., LL B | ||
| Harold V. Whitlock | The blue cape | ||
| Harold V. Whitlock | Edith | ||
| Dora Wilson | Alan Marshall, Esq. | ||
| Dora Wilson | Miss Sybil Craig | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | Rosine Guiterman, MA | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | Margaret Swann | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | K. R. Cramp, Esq, OBE, MA | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | Roderic Quinn | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | T. Stuart Gurr, Esq. | ||
| Joseph Wolinski | C. H. Harrison, Esq., B.A. | ||
| Arnold Zimmerman | Here's luck | ||
| Arnold Zimmerman | S. G. Thorpe, Esq. | ||
| Arnold Zimmerman | Bitter wine | self-portrait | |
| Melba van der Velden | Self-portrait |