Robert Kantor

Robert Aron Kantor (born February 13, 1943) is an American sculptor and attorney.

As an artist, Kantor’s work focuses on large scale steel structures and mobile (kinetic) sculpture. and one at a medical center in Napa, California.

As an attorney working as a sole practitioner and with the American Civil Liberties Union in 1971-2, he represented street artists arrested in San Francisco, eventually negotiating a resolution allowing the artists to display their work at specific locations. He co-founded a law firm and several real estate ventures.

Early life and education Kantor was born in New York, NY and grew up in Dallas, TX. He graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied literature and art history. He was awarded a graduate fellowship at New York University.

Career

Art Living in the 1960s in New York, Kantor was influenced by the work of mobile sculptor Alexander Calder and began making his own mobile sculptures. He completed his first kinetic sculpture, entitled Don Quixote, in 1965.

Kantor co-founded the tax law firm Kantor & Wolf in 1974. He was also an executive producer of the 1976 Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen movie The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane. in Tacoma, Washington in 1985, and in Seattle in 1988, including the iconic Smith Tower. Kantor developed two properties in Honolulu in 1989 with his company Rokan.

Kantor was a primary Designer and co-founder of The National Philanthropic Trust in 1997 (NPT); NPT is one of the largest managers of donor-advised funds in the nation with about $6.2 billion in assets in 2020.

Kantor co-founded Headwater Capital in 2016, a real estate investment firm based in Ketchum, Idaho.