Wes Walters

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Wes(ley) Walters, Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize. Born Mildura, Victoria, 1928. Realist portrait painter and abstract artist. Painted nearly 200 portraits of leading Australians, especially academics, businessmen, artists, and musicians. Awarded Minnie Crouch Prize in 1953 and 1956. He won the 1979 Archibald prize in 1980 with a portrait of Philip Adams. He was a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 1988 and 1990. He painted a 1.3 metre high, 1 metre wide portrait of the Central Queensland University's Chancellor, Justice Stan Jones. In 1998 he painted Donald Bradman.

Awards
Preceded by Brett Whiteley	Archibald Prize 1979 for Portrait of Philip Adams	Succeeded by Not awarded (Eric Smith, 1981)