Phyllis Barbara Kind (née Cobin; 1933–2018) was an American art dealer active in Chicago and New York.
The couple moved to New York City; Phyllis taught elementary school while Joshua pursued a PhD in Renaissance art at Columbia University.
[1] Among others shown in her Chicago gallery were Barbara Rossi, Richard Hull, Robert Lostutter, Ed Paschke, Paul Sierra,[7] Christina Ramberg, Karl Wirsum,[1][8] and Joseph Yoakum.
In 1972, Phyllis Kind presented her first group show of outsider art, "The Artless Artist: Contemporary 'Naive Works."
Over the years, Kind showed Chicago custodian Henry Darger, Mexican artist Martín Ramírez (discovered by Nutt), and Europeans Adolf Wölfli, Augustin Lesage, Carlo Zinelli.
[10][11] She was an advisor to Sanford L. Smith & Associates' annual Outsider Art Fair since its inception in 1992,[12] and traditionally occupied the first booth on the show floor.
[13] In her Soho gallery, Kind also showcased the work of Dan Keplinger, an artist with cerebral palsy, who was the subject of the 1999 Oscar-winning short documentary King Gimp.
[citation needed] In 2009, Phyllis Kind closed her last gallery, a space in New York's Chelsea district that she had occupied since 2006.