Winner for 1952
Charles DoutneyDarlinghurst Road
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1952
Finalists for 1952
- Mary Brady - Workers and Watchers
- Margaret Cilento - Sunday at Moorooka
- Robert Dickerson - The bathers
- Charles Doutney - Darlinghurst Road
- George B Duncan - Flight
- A R Freeman - Fishermen
- Samuel Fullbrook - La Perouse
- James Gleeson - Tristan
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - A Day in Summer
- H F Weaver Hawkins - Football Tangle
- Elaine Haxton - The Kite Flyers
- Sali Herman - Shearingtime
- Frank Hinder - Subway Escalator
- Jack Noel Kilgour - The Band Recital
- Jack Koskie - Dipping the New Net, Eden
- Andrew Lomnici - The Tower Building from Babel
- Herbert McClintock - Street Procession
- Matthew Charles Meere - The baptism
- James Phillips - Pitt Street, Sydney
- Collinridge Rivett - Dogman Descending
- Barbara Robertson - Betty at the Bus Stop
- Barbara Robertson - Political Prisoners
- Jeffrey Smart - Judgment of Paris - Bondi Junction
- Dorothy Stoner - Quiet Hour
- Wallace Thornton - The Sculptor's Studio
- Mary Troy - Reading
- Mary Troy - Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877) Pioneering New Australians
