Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896–1974) was a Russian-born American painter based in the New York City area.

[1] Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously emigrated there.

He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career.

[1] Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union[2] and also at the Art Students League of New York[3] in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil.

Like many American artists, in the 1920s he also spent time working in Paris, where his circle included sculptor Isamu Noguchi among others.