Winner for 1962
Finalists for 1962
- Frederic Bates - Affinity
- Frederic Bates - Cafe Noir
- Joan Beck - Bus Queue
- Kevin Connor - Mother and Child
- Ray Crooke - Island Grace
- Max Cullen - First Awake
- Ross Davis - Natives Dancing
- Frank K de Silva - Tin Scratching
- Maximilian Feuerring - Spectators
- Roy Fluke - Welding in the Penstock 2, Tumut
- John Frawley - Burnt Out
- Strom Gould - Street Scene
- Dorathea Gourlay - Any Spring
- Harold Greenhill - The Cyclists
- Lorraine Haines - The Fishermen, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
- Edward Hall - Spearfishermen and Onlookers
- Edward Hall - Saving the Boats
- Kevin 'Pro' Hart - Backyard Drinkers
- Sali Herman - The Conversation
- Kenneth Jack - The Stockmen
- Jean Johnson - In the Domain
- Stuart King - Spirits of the Dead
- Cec Knight - The Garden
- Cec Knight - Going Home
- Jack Koskie - On the Wind
- Herbert McClintock - Pattern Discussion
- Bettina McMahon - Emerging Horsemen
- Vladas Meskenas - The Resting Couple
- Jon Molvig - Eden Industrial, The Gravedigger, No. 2
- Marie Muller - Children
- John Rigby - Children Dancing (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1962)
- Una Roseby - The Prospectors
- Joe Rose - The Protest
- Julian Smith - Six O'Clock Closing
- Julian Smith - Backstage
- Molly Stephens - Cat Section
- Lillian Sutherland - The Family
- Lillian Sutherland - The Blue Cap
- Ilse Tauber - Market
- Dora Toovey - Shadows
- Phyllis Paulina Waterhouse - North Melbourne Family
- Lovoni V Webb - The Fourth Generation