B. Gerald Cantor

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B. Gerald Cantor ( January 17, 1916– July 17, 1996 ) was the founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald and an important philanthropist supporting the visual arts institutions in the United States. During his life Cantor assembled the world's largest private collection of works by Auguste Rodin, much of which was donated to public arts institutions like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

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• B. Gerald Cantor Biography from the The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation