[1] In 1969, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law, and then appointed as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.

[2] Kantor’s Hope Series was exhibited in 2006 at the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), a public museum in Seattle.

Hope 2 is a rusted and hollowed out metal bomb with small plaster and glass butterflies on its surface and held up by a pole mounted to a steel base.

[1] In 2018, Kantor’s “The White Flower,” an 18 foot tall 220 pound indoor mobile, became a permanent installation at Boise State University.

[3] In 1971 and 1972, as an attorney in San Francisco he represented street artists who had been arrested for selling their art without permit which the police department refused to issue.

[6][7] In 1976, Kantor and his partners owned the U.S. distribution rights to the Italian film Seven Beauties, which received three Academy Award nominations.

[10] He and his partners purchased, redeveloped, and sold historic properties in Oakland in 1981,[18] in Tacoma, Washington in 1985,[19] and in Seattle in 1988, including the iconic Smith Tower.

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