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Rigby was a finalist in the Archibald 24 times, often in tandem with Sulman & Wynne Prizes.

He was also a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, and won Australia’s richest art prize at the time, the Australian Women’s Weekly Art Prize, 1958.

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The Italian travelling art scholarship won in 1955 opened new experience after a restrained post World War II era. The 1958 Women’s Weekly Art Prize of 1,000 pounds paid for land on acreage in Brisbane’s western suburbs.

Prizes:
Sulman Prize
Caltex Centenary Art Prize
H.C. Richards Memorial Prize
Melrose Prize
Narcoorte Acquisitive Exhibition Prize