Phyllis Barbara Kind was an American art dealer active in Chicago and New York.
14 Facts About Phyllis Kind
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Phyllis Kind promoted the work of the Chicago Imagists and outsider artists.
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Phyllis Kind was born Phyllis Barbara Cobin in The Bronx, New York City on 1 April 1933 to Harold Cobin, a dentist, and Dorothy Cobin.
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Phyllis Kind attended the Bronx High School of Science and the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied chemistry.
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Phyllis Kind married Joshua Kind, whom she met at university, in 1956.
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The couple moved to New York City; Phyllis taught elementary school while Joshua pursued a PhD in Renaissance art at Columbia University.
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Phyllis Kind received a master's degree in English literature from the University of Chicago.
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Phyllis Kind became interested in the contemporary art scene of Chicago.
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Phyllis Kind followed the work of a movement that, overall, was called the Chicago Imagists.
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Phyllis Kind gave some of the artists in the movement their first solo shows: Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson in 1970 and Roger Brown in 1971.
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Phyllis Kind was the first American gallerist to show contemporary and outsider work together.
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Phyllis Kind promoted and marketed the work of Georgian Howard Finster.
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In 2009, Phyllis Kind closed her last gallery, a space in New York's Chelsea district that she had occupied since 2006.
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Phyllis Kind died in San Francisco, California on September 28,2018, aged 85, from respiratory failure.