It was a sparkling winter morning when the Art Gallery of NSW revealed the 47 finalists for the Archibald Prize together with those for the Wynne and Sulman Prizes. There’s nothing new about any of this; the Wynne, established in 1897, for landscape, is Australia’s oldest art prize. The Sulman, for genre painting, was established in 1936 while the Archibald is in its 94th year.
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