The Shelby White and Leon Levy Travel Grant Program at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, was founded in 1985 by Leon Levy and Shelby White on the principle that seeing works of art in the original, rather than studying reproductions in books and slides, is essential to the professional development of future art historians, archaeologists, and conservators. The Foundation continued Leon and Shelby’s support and endowed the Travel Grant Program in 2022.
The Program offers a grant to every M.A. student at the Institute after their first year of study. The terms of the grant’s use are broad: each student creates their own itinerary to travel anywhere in the U.S. or abroad to see works of art and architecture of scholarly and aesthetic interest to them.
