The Hite Foundation
Selected Grants: 19th-Century Photography

Selected Grants: 19th Century Photography
Art Institute of Chicago 2009: $25,000
Chicago, IL
www.artic.org
To support publication of the exhibition catalogue, "Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage."
Drawing Center 2003: $25,000
New York, NY
www.drawingcenter.org
To support the 2004 exhibition, "Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature, with the botanical photograms of Anna Atkins as the centerpiece".
International Center of Photography 2003: $35,000
New York, NY
www.icp.org
To fund the 2003 New York City exhibition, "Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll".
Metropolitan Museum of Art    
New York, NY
www.metmuseum.org
2003-2005: $120,000
To fund the May 2005 exhibition entitled "The Photographs of Roger Fenton".
2006-2007: $120,000
To fund the 2007 exhibition entitled "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860".
2008-2010: $100,000
To fund the 2009 exhibition entitled "Napoleon III and Paris" and the 2010 exhibition entitled "Victorian Photocollage".
National Gallery of Art 2008: $40,000
Washington, D.C.
www.nga.gov
To fund the 2008 exhibition of "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860".
American Fellows of the Tate 2005-2006: $40,000
New York, NY
www.tate.org.uk
To support the September 2005 exhibition,"Roger Fenton", at Tate Britain.
University of Texas at Austin 2004-2005: $40,000
Austin, TX
www.hrc.utexas.edu
To support two years of research, writing, and selection of important photographs from the Gernsheim Collection, which includes the work of many 19th century British photographers, in order to write and publish a book entitled Helmut Gernsheim and the Gernsheim Collection