Nathan Farb, a photographer whose career took him from downtown Manhattan to a city in Siberia and then to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, died on March 26 at his home in Jay, a town in Adirondack Park. He was 85.

            Mr. Farb did not pick up a camera in a serious way until he was 25, but when he did, he felt an immediate desire to be a photographer.

            “The camera satisfied so many needs for me: The need to be with people, the need to connect to people, the need to express myself, the need to be able to comment on society,” he said.

Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made zany children’s programming, gaining a following among both the young and adult members of the counterculture, died on April 10 in Los Angeles. He was 96.

            According to The New York Times, Mr. Krofft was “an eccentric visionary, a kids’ show P.T. Barnum who created improbable programming with a combination of creativity and chutzpah.” What tied the shows together was a madcap feel of fantastical creatures, elaborate costumes and puppets, psychedelic sets and slapstick humor — “ a mélange of the Three Stooges and “Alice in Wonderland,” The Times said.

            He was proud of many of his shows, Mr. Krofft had said, especially “Pufnstuf,” but watching reruns of the worst Krofft programs could make him cringe. “I have to turn away once in a while,” he said, “because I think, ‘Oh, my God, how did I ever allow that?’”

Adriano Goldschmied, the Italian businessman known as “the godfather of denim” for his role in developing versions of the world’s most popular fabric, died on April 5 in Castelfranco Veneto, a town near his home in Asolo, Italy. He was 82.

            On any given day, marketers say, nearly half the world’s population is wearing jeans. Last year, more than $98 billion worth of jeans were sold worldwide, and if you wear jeans, you own a pair that is influenced in some way by Mr. Goldschmied’s presence in the industry.

            By his count, Mr. Goldschmied collaborated on or started more than 50 brands, including Gap 1969, a retro label named for the year Gap was founded, as well as Goldsign and AG Adriano Goldschmied, now known as AG Jeans.

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.”

Isaiah Zagar, an outsider artist who bedazzled thousands of square feet of Philadelphia with mosaic murals, pieced together from shards of mirrors and crockery and encrusted with bottles and bicycle wheels, died on Feb. 19 at his home in Philadelphia. He was 86.

From the late 1960s, Mr. Zagar produced more than 50,000 square feet of mosaic murals in Philadelphia and dozens of murals in other states and in Latin America. Some of his work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Sondra Lee, an actress, dancer and singer who brought an impish glee to supporting roles in the original Broadway musical productions of “Peter Pan” and “Hello, Dolly!,” died on March 2 at her home in Manhattan. She was 97.

In June, Ms. Lee attended a performance of songs from “Hello, Dolly!” by the Water Company at Carnegie Hall. During the show, she came onstage to be recognized as the last surviving principal from the show’s original cast. The audience stood and roared.