Iris Cantor, an arts patron and philanthropist who with her investment banker husband, B. Gerald Cantor, the founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, amassed — and then bestowed to various museums — one of the largest private collections of Rodin sculptures in the world, died on Feb. 22 at her home in Palm Beach FL. She was 95.

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation’s major beneficiaries include the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stanford University, the Musée Rodin in Paris, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. She also funded health centers in major hospitals across the country.

In an interview with the Metropolitan Museum in 2022, Mrs. Cantor said, “Art should contribute in a meaningful way to the life of a community and to our collective understanding of who we are, where we came from, and even where we might be headed. There is still no better place for all of this to happen than at museums, which preserve and showcase the results of human creativity.”