Sir John Sulman Prize 1952
- Mary Brady - Workers and watchers
- Margaret Cilento - Sunday at Moorooka
- Robert Dickerson - The bathers
- Charles Doutney - Darlinghurst Road (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1952)
- George B Duncan - Flight
- A R Freeman - Fishermen
- Sam Fullbrook - La Perouse
- James Gleeson - Tristan
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - A day in summer
- Weaver Hawkins - Football tangle
- Elaine Haxton - The kite flyers
- Sali Herman - Shearingtime
- Frank Hinder - Subway escalator
- J Noel Kilgour - The band recital
- Jack Koskie - Dipping the new net, Eden
- Andrew Lomnici - The tower building from Babel
- Herbert McClintock - Street procession
- Charles Meere - The baptism
- James Phillips - Pitt Street, Sydney
- Collinridge Rivett - Dogman descending
- Barbara Robertson - Political prisoners
- Barbara Robertson - Betty at the bus stop
- 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