Talk:Archibald Prize

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[edit] Who was Robert Campbell Esq - portrait of 1955

As far as I can work out he had been the director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. see page 19 He had been the first director of the Queensland Art Gallery. [1] he was also painter as per the Hotchin refernce.--User:AYArktos | Talk 09:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The AGNSW database has the 1955 winner listed with keywords "Art Gallery Director" , thats not much help er.. I found this [2]

"In May 1955 the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Director, Robert Campbell, considered it important for the Gallery to establish a collection of Aboriginal art:

"The Director strongly recommends the establishment of a collection of Aboriginal work, as it will unquestionably be of the greatest interest in future years and many overseas visitors to the Gallery have asked whether we have any specimens. Although the [South Australian] Museum possesses a collection, they are regarded as anthropological objects and not as works of art""

Also a book refernce which is probably the same person here "Roberts, Tom Paintings of Tom Roberts / with an introduction and commentaries by Robert Campbell Adelaide: Rigby, 1963 " [3] Cfitzart 10:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

any moment now and we will have ot write an article on him :-)--User:AYArktos | Talk 10:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Ive started one now :) - Robert Campbell (Art gallery director) ---Cfitzart 22:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notable finalists? and List of Winners and section on entries

I am not sure if I see the point of the section Archibald Prize#Notable finalists. As the Archibald is supposed to be portraits of notable people, it would be expected that finalists would includeprotraits of notbale people. Perhaps if the section was refined to discuss pictures where commentators thought (not just a passing throw-away line)that a finalist of the Archibald was a very notable painting. Otherwise, perhaps these finalists could be mentioned int heir own articles - eg the article on William Dargie could mention that he was an Archibald finalist in 1981 for his protrait of Joh Bjelke-Petersen ...--A Y Arktos 00:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• Another suggestion to tighten up the article is to perhaps create a separate article on the list of winners. Alternatively perhaps the sections need to be reordered to have discussion at the top and winners as one of the last sections. Perhaps the section on entries could go higher up.--A Y Arktos 00:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• It might be good if we could tidy and organise for 16 March when finalists will be announced see http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/coming/archibald_dates_2006 for key dates fo 2006--A Y Arktos 00:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• Yes I think it should be moved to a separate article, I have started Archibald Prize list of winners -- Astrokey44|talk 01:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)