The prestigious JULIAN ONDERDONK MEMORIAL PURCHASE PRIZE has been awarded at the annual Juried Artists Exhibition since 1946. Below is a list of recipients whose work is now in the SAALM permanent collection.

Jack Tinkle, Winner of the Onderdonk Purchase Prize, 1967

2023 - Jayne Lawrence
2022 - Marc Eisenburg
2021 - Samuel Wilson
​2020 - Paula Susan
2019 - Alexandra Nelipa
2018 - Brian Row
2017 - Richard Conn
2016- Thomas Schlenker
2015 - Sallie S. Carter
2014 - Vikki Fields
2013 - Tamara Van Horn
2012 - Billy Keen
2011 - Francis Huang
2010 - Susan Brumfield Farris
2009 - Bernice Appelin-Williams
2008 - Solomon Wells
2007 - Rachman Ulmer
2006 – Tim McMeans
2005 – Brian St. John
2004- Gladys Roldan-de-moras
2003 - Betty Muyres
2001 - Margaret Warren
2000 - James Hendricks
1999 - Fritz Ozuna
1998 - Henry Stein
1997 - Brixey Sutton
1996 - Kuo Yen Ng
1995 - Robert Johnson
1994 - Dan Burt
1993 - Dan Burt
1992 - E. Gordon West
1991 - Linda Hammond
1990 - Marija Kae Rodriguez
1989 - Sandra French
1988 - Agnes Welsh Eyster
1987 - Louis Lubbering
1986 - Jim Stoker
1985 - Drusilla Pfannstiel
1984 - Joe Tye

1983 - Kathleen Cook
1982 - Neal Wilson
1981 - Thomas A. Pressly
1980 - Bill Reily
1979 - Jim Stoker
1978 - Stevie Manak
1977 - Gilberto Tarin
1976 - Frank Hein
1975 - Authur de la Fuenta
1974 – Mildred Cocke
1973 - Richard H. Rogers
1972 - Val Alexander
1971 - Val Alexander
1970 - Mildred Cocke
1969 - David Reyes
1968 - Wendell Ott
1967 - Jack Tinkle
1966 - Carl Embrey
1965 - Jim Watson
1964 - Richard H. Rogers
1963 - Helen Van Buren
1962 - Clay Walker
1961 - Bill Bristow
1960 - June Kroll
1959 - Margaret Putnam
1958 – Leslie Larson
1957 - George Pinca
1956 - Keith McIntyre
1955 - Chester Toney
1954 - Jack Tinkle
1953 - Keith Mc Intyre
1952 - Cecil L. Casebier
1951 - Janet Turner
1950 - John Squire Adams
1949 - J. Arthur Head
1948 - Jack Tinkle
1947 - Margaret Pace
1946 – Charles Thompson